While habit change isn’t always easy, Duhigg believes that it’s always possible. He argues that, whether they live ordinary lives or face critical, high-stress situations like the war in Iraq, people are only as effective as their habits. In other words, she actually reprogrammed her brain by changing her habits-and Duhigg wants to teach his readers to do the same. Scientists scanned her brain and discovered that she had built new neural pathways for her new, healthy, disciplined habits. But after a flash of inspiration, she changed all of these habits in just a few months, starting with the keystone habit of smoking. For twenty years, Allen smoked, drank, and ate too much she never exercised, was deep in debt, and kept losing jobs. In his prologue, Duhigg introduces this principle with the story of Lisa Allen, a woman who turned her entire life around after a divorce and a fateful trip to Egypt. By truly understanding these habits, Duhigg believes, people can learn to master them-which gives them the power to control their own lives and shape their own identities. In The Power of Habit, journalist Charles Duhigg argues that habits are the foundation of human behavior.
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