What Nobody Tells You About Breaking Habits
The Paradox of Negative Practice in Behaviour Change
The Paradox of Negative Practice in Behaviour Change
If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise. — William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
Most people who want to eliminate their bad habits try to do so by directly suppressing them — just forcing themselves to stop. Often they find that simply doesn’t work. In his novel Women in Love, D.H. Lawre…
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