How to Break Up with Your Bad Habits

Pushkin. Hey Happiness Lab listeners, welcome back to our special series on spring cleaning your happiness. In honor of this season of new beginnings, we are clearing out all our outdated behaviors and mindsets so that we can refresh our our emotional junk drawers, so to speak. We'll also be doing our own Happiness Lab closet refresh as we head back into the episode archives to find throwback insights from past episodes that you might have missed.

And in today's episode from the archives, we're diving into a very tough spring cleanup job. We'll be exploring how to freshen up our habits. Now, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that there's at least one routine that you do on autopilot all the time, even though it makes you feel kinda crappy. Wouldn't you like to break free, to toss out that bad habit like an old pair of jeans, and replace it with a routine that fits your current goals a bit better? That sounds awesome in theory, you're probably thinking, but is it really possible to break a well-learned bad habit?

Turns out, yes, totally possible. But the process is way easier if you have a more nuanced understanding of the way our brains structure habits and how they really work. And that is what you're going to learn in our episode today. You're gonna meet a scientist who sleeps in her running gear and a Vietnam war doc who turned to heroin addicts to debunk some important misconceptions about habit change. By the end of the show, you'll have gained some practical tips for dropping

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