Welcome to episode 227 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us.

Today we're talking about habits.

We've all got them, and we all wonder why we aren't better at changing them.

Well, as it turns out, there's a science to making positive changes that stick,

and today's guest

is going to share that with us. Wendy Wood has spent 30 years researching human behavior

and is the leading expert on habits and change. Her new book, Good Habits, Bad Habits,

helps explain how we form habits, what habits really are, and why so much of what we've

believed about changing habits is actually wrong. Wendy are and why so much of what we believed about changing habits

is actually wrong.

Wendy, thank you so much for being on Live Happy Now.

Oh, I appreciate you inviting me.

Well, this is a topic that is relevant to everybody, and we can't always say that because

habits, we've all got them.

And as I read your book, I realized how little we actually know about them.

But you've been studying habits for a long time.

Can you tell me what made you get into that?

Yeah.

I didn't start as a habit researcher.

I started as someone who is interested in behavior change. And what became apparent early on is that we're all pretty good at making decisions and even following through

for a short amount of time.

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