Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about a US government study on warp drive, how to form new habits, and why you should never skip leg day if you want a healthy brain

satisfy some curiosity.

Cody, what's the last habit that you formed?

I did kind of form a habit recently and I was making my bed.

That's great. Yeah. You make your bed every morning?

Most mornings. If my wife isn't going into work that day because she doesn't always go into

her office and I'm in a hurry I'll kind of leave it and she'll handle it but we both between the two of us we have a very strong habit of at least one of us will make the bed during the day hashtag goals that just that makes your room look so much nicer.

The vet tells me that I have to give my cat eardrops

every single day, and it's really hard to do

because she hates it, and it's like,

I just have to ruin a perfectly good moment of me petting her by putting something awful in her ears

Then she goes and runs away and hates me for like five minutes and then she's fine again, but it's it's hard

So that's been a really hard habit for me to get into.

Anyway, a recent study actually showed that you probably have a lot more habits than you think.

Actually, up to 40% of our daily activities

come down to just habit. But if almost half of your life is just based on habit

then what makes it so hard to build a new one? Well curiosity found the answers and it all comes down to

engaging your habitual mind versus your intentional mind. So let's start with where

habits come from. You form habits through associative learning.

So like when you learn something like how to ride a bike,

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