Hello how to listeners this is Charles Duheg and we actually don't have a whole new episode for you today

because originally we had planned to take this week off for spring break

However, we do have a brand new quarantine Q&A to hide you over until next week when we'll be back with a brand new episode.

Quarantine Q&A is a new segment we're doing where listeners send us their questions about living under quarantine or how to make

do during this pretty challenging time and they send us their solutions about improving life

and how to make it through.

This week I had the chance to chat with a listener

about how to create an important new habit.

I'm Margaret from Denver,

and my question is how to get Americans to wear masks to help stop the coronavirus from spreading

further?

That is a great question.

And it's obviously one that folks are struggling with right now in many ways.

And not just how do we get folks to to wear masks, but how do we convince people to stay indoors?

How do we convince people to stop touching their face or to sneeze into

the crook of their arm? A lot of it has to do with being able to give the activity some kind of reward. And a lot of what we know about how we create new habits comes from the past.

During World War II, there was a big move to try and change how people ate.

And the reason why is because they wanted to preserve meat

to be able to send it to the front lines,

particularly healthy meat, that, like stakes

that they were processing into

MREs and were sending to soldiers and they were worried about Americans not

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