MIT explains why bad habits are hard to break
Apparently, habits may form familiar neural pathways which makes it more difficult to break the pattern of behavior. This makes a lot of sense, given people’s difficulties with …
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Well..
what about good habbits ?
Is habit changing always hard as well as breaking bad habits?
Thanks, I used this on a BIO HONORS project.
sounds good but what did research say about people who did quit a habit for a long period of time, did their brain states return to normal?
Your beliefs determine your actions and reality. Therefore if you accept the result of the above mentioned research you’re saying that someone who is an addict has no hope of recovery. That belief not gonna help anyone come out of an addicted state. Why isnt there any mention of how we could use the result of this research to overcome addcitions? Is your research meant to tell ppl that there is no point in trying to recover from an addiction?