How To Break Your Bad Habit
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*This episode is supported by Blue Apron.* We all have habits we'd like to break, whether it's biting your fingernails, smoking, or eating late at night. But why are these habits so hard to break? Perhaps you think your day is made up of deliberate, conscious decisions, but in reality, a University of Duke study found that 45% of your everyday behaviors are actions that you repeat every day and tend to do in the same location. These are your habits. Habits are attributed to one of the most primitive structures in your brain, the Basal Ganglia, the same region that helps control processes such as breathing and swallowing. In an MIT expiriment, a mouse sits behind a gate of a T shaped maze where to the left is a piece of chocolate. When the door...
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*This episode is supported by Blue Apron.* We all have habits we'd like to break, whether it's biting your fingernails, smoking, or eating late at night. But why are these habits so hard to break? Perhaps you think your day is made up of deliberate, conscious decisions, but in reality, a University of Duke study found that 45% of your everyday behaviors are actions that you repeat every day and tend to do in the same location. These are your habits. Habits are attributed to one of the most primitive structures in your brain, the Basal Ganglia, the same region that helps control processes such as breathing and swallowing. In an MIT expiriment, a mouse sits behind a gate of a T shaped maze where to the left is a piece of chocolate. When the door...
