psychology

“Making Habits, Breaking Habits” by Jeremy Dean. Full disclosure: If you buy the book through the link, it won’t cost you any more, but I’ll get a few pennies. But my main motivation for doing this is to understand the book properly. What follows is my summary of the chapter. We like to think that we chose our habits on purpose. Yeah right. Habits build up slowly, like learning to…

Christmas in Spain doesn’t finish until January 6th, when the three kings take their presents to Baby Jesus, and to good children. So it’s sort-of new year today. Or at least, it’s the first day of 2015 when I’ve had time to get off the hamster wheel for some medium-to-long term planning. So I’m reading “Making Habits, Breaking Habits” by Jeremy Dean. Like most people, I don’t do very well…