As you’re drafting your New Year’s resolutions, you may think that it takes 21 days of repeating an action for that action to become a habit. So, you set out to go to the gym for 21 days, thinking ...

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Depending on the behavior, it may become automatic for you in about 66 days. Some habits may be more challenging than others, but persistence and consistency do help to develop new ones. Whether you ...

Up to 65 percent of our daily behaviors occur habitually—but how habits form remains difficult for researchers to understand ...

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As I write this, it is approaching the end of New Year’s Day and Sarah and I are relaxing in a cute Airbnb in the historic area of downtown Savannah, Georgia. Savannah has always been one of our ...