9/11/2018 Habit Stacking: How to Build New Habits by Taking Advantage of Old Ones https://jamesclear.com/habit-stacking 1/7 JAMES CLEAR How to Build New Habits by Taking Advantage of Old Ones by James Clear (staging.jamesclear.com/about)????| ???? Behavioral Psychology (https://jamesclear.com/behavioral-psychology), Habits (https://jamesclear.com/habits), Self-Improvement (https://jamesclear.com/self-improvement) In 2007, researchers at Oxford University started peering into the brains of newborn babies. What they found was surprising. After comparing the newborn brains to the normal adult human, the researchers realized that the average adult had 41 percent fewer neurons than the average newborn.