The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.