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What Nobody Tells You About Breaking Habits

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What Nobody Tells You About Breaking Habits

The Paradox of Negative Practice in Behaviour Change

Donald J. Robertson
Nov 25, 2019
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What Nobody Tells You About Breaking Habits

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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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