Human behavior

9/11/2018 The Domino Effect: How to Create a Chain Reaction of Good Habits https://jamesclear.com/domino-effect 1/8 JAMES CLEAR How to Create a Chain Reaction of Good Habits by James Clear (staging.jamesclear.com/about)????| ???? Behavioral Psychology (https://jamesclear.com/behavioral-psychology), Habits (https://jamesclear.com/habits), Productivity (https://jamesclear.com/productivity) Human behaviors are often tied to one another. For example, consider the case of a woman named Jennifer Dukes Lee. For two and a half decades during her adult life, starting when she left for college and extending into her 40s, Lee never made her bed except for when her mother or guests dropped by the house. At some point, she decided to give it another try and managed to make her bed

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.

9/11/2018 How Long Does it Take to Form a Habit? Backed by Science. https://jamesclear.com/new-habit 1/7 JAMES CLEAR How Long Does it Actually Take to Form a New Habit? (Backed by Science) by James Clear (staging.jamesclear.com/about)????| ???? Behavioral Psychology (https://jamesclear.com/behavioral-psychology), Habits (https://jamesclear.com/habits) Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon in the 1950s when he began noticing a strange pattern among his patients. When Dr. Maltz would perform an operation ? like a nose job, for example ? he found that it would take the patient about 21 days to get used to seeing their new face. Similarly, when a patient had an arm or a leg amputated, Maxwell Maltz noticed that the patient would sense a phantom limb for about 21 days before