Forming good habits and breaking bad ones isn't just about willpower—it's about understanding how your brain works and designing your environment and routines accordingly. Backed by research from ...

Did you make any resolutions this new year? If you did, are you keeping to them? Well done if you are. Polling in America suggests half of new-year resolvers give up by the end of March. More rigorous ...

Low angle of young girl looking awayLisa Mckelvie; Getty Images The start of a new year is always filled with chatter about habits: how to break bad ones, and how to start good ones. But according to ...

Our environment has a silent but profound influence on our daily behaviors. While many assume that habits are built (and broken) on sheer willpower and motivation, the reality is that our surroundings ...

Source: Image by Carl Pickhardt Ph. D. Practice can feel like imposing and restrictive work—dull, boring, tiresome, pointless. With both good habits and bad, repetitive practice creates a pattern of ...

Picture your typical morning. You wake up, maybe you scroll through your phone, maybe you feel bad about that, you get up, you brush your teeth. This is all a collection of habits. Some are healthy ...

Subscribe today! “… the habits that come most naturally to us tend to be bad for our long-term health and happiness.” — Thomas Rutledge, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego.

(UPDATED) Under stress, we all tend to seek comfort — sometimes in not-so-healthy ways — but a new study suggests that challenging experiences are as likely to promote good habits as they are to ...

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Research shows it helps to start small if you want new habits to stick. NPR's Life Kit has more. Picture your typical morning. You wake up, maybe scroll through your phone, feel bad about that, get up ...