Some solutions? Try to get more sleep, exercise regularly and opt for stress reduction techniques like meditation, which can all work to increase willpower and overall brain health, says Poldrack.

What we call “healthy” today isn’t always what our grandparents believed. Many habits that were passed down with good ...

In trying to hyper-optimize our lives, we’re likely to prune our habits and value systems more harshly than required. Here’s why. Most people assume their “bad habits” reveal something unflattering ...

The start of a new year is always filled with chatter about habits: how to break bad ones, and how to start good ones. But according to Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and the upcoming ...

These coping strategies stop the spiral briefly, only to reinforce it over time.

Habits have been described as repeated actions that arise from some kind of internal or external trigger (Robbins & Costa, 2017). Often, these habits exist in particular contexts. For example, Billy ...