It's not 21 days, or even 66 days, no matter what the life hack industrial complex wants you to think. Forming a habit is a classic life hack: You want to change something about your life, so you ...

Depending on what it is, a new behavior 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.

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

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Our habits shape our lives, but forming good ones, shrugging off bad ones and inciting positive change-- those are the tricky parts. But the good news is habits are a popular topic, so there’s plenty ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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