Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
by Wendy Wood
The reason health activities do not fit into a busy life is rarely calendar arithmetic, it is that non-automatic behaviours consume decision capacity. Reframes time management as environment design. Wood draws on three decades of her own habit research to argue that willpower and scheduling are the wrong levers. Context, friction and repetition determine whether exercise, cooking and sleep routines survive a crowded week.
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