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Scoop.it!
What happens when you turn convention on its head and look a the world from a totally different perspective? It's an exercise in opening the mind by turning expectations upside down. 
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Scoop.it!
Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically. This allows you to follow the same route to work every day without thinking about it, liberating your brain to ponder other things, such as what to make for dinner.
However, the brain's executive command center does not completely relinquish control of habitual behavior.
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Why that New Year’s resolution to cut back on the martinis seems like a distant memory only three months later, when the weather improves: because our best laid plans for changing our routines often fail to take into account how powerless we are to escape the habits that control us, and that the best we can do is to redirect them. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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Scoop.it!
Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically.
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In The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, acclaimed journalist Charles Duhigg investigates the neuroscience of habit and explains how habit loops are formed in the brain.
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"Ninety-nine hundredths of our activity is purely automatic," the psychologist and philosopher William James famously wrote. "All of our life is nothing but a mass of habits." James was pointing out that, though we give habits little thought, they define our lives: how much we eat, save or spend, how often we trek to the gym and what we say to our kids each night.
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As David Hume once wrote: "All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing [our]...experience."