"How long has it been since your last cigarette?" asked one of the doctors, beginning the list of questions that Lisa answered every time she came to this lab outside Bethesda, Maryland. "Almost four years," she replied. "And since then, I have lost twenty-seven kilos and run a marathon." In addition, she had started postgraduate studies and bought a house. Not bad at all... The scientific team in the room included neurologists, psychologists, geneticists, and a sociologist. For the past three years, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, they had been systematically studying Lisa and more than twenty other people who had overcome destructive habits such as smoking, chronic overeating, excessive alcohol consumption, compulsive shopping, etc. All these individuals had one thing in common: they had rebuilt their lives in a relatively short period of time, and the researchers wanted to understand how they managed it.
- How did an advertiser manage to make brushing teeth a daily global habit?
- How did a general succeed in calming wild crowds by denying them fast food?
- How did champion Michael Phelps achieve a world record with his goggles filled with water?
- How can advertisers identify pregnant women before they even inform their families of the happy news?
The answer is one: HABIT. Most choices we make every day may seem like the result of a reasoning process, but in reality, they are not. They are habits. And these habits significantly affect our health, productivity, financial security, and happiness.
The topic of habit has preoccupied humans for centuries, but only in the last twenty years have neurologists, psychologists, and sociologists begun to realize how habits influence our lives; and, most importantly, how they can change.
In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times journalist Charles Duhigg compellingly analyzes the scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed to improve our lives.
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"How long has it been since your last cigarette?" asked one of the doctors, beginning the list of questions that Lisa answered every time she came to this lab outside Bethesda, Maryland. "Almost four years," she replied. "And since then, I have lost twenty-seven kilos and run a marathon." In addition, she had started postgraduate studies and bought a house. Not bad at all... The scientific team in the room included neurologists, psychologists, geneticists, and a sociologist. For the past three years, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, they had been systematically studying Lisa and more than twenty other people who had overcome destructive habits such as smoking, chronic overeating, excessive alcohol consumption, compulsive shopping, etc. All these individuals had one thing in common: they had rebuilt their lives in a relatively short period of time, and the researchers wanted to understand how they managed it.
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- Author
- Charles Duhigg
- Publisher
- PSychogios
- Original Title
- The Power of Habit
- Award
- -
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- How we can change our lives by changing our habits
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 438
- Release Date
- 10/2012
- Publication Date
- 2012
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789604960200
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