Russell A. Poldrack

Whereas if you kind of pick and choose every morning, well, I go to the gym today, and if I am, will I go at 9 a.m. or 3 p.m. ?

Whereas if you kind of pick and choose every morning, well, I go to the gym today, and if I am, will I go at 9 a.m. or 3 p.m. ?

becomes a much harder thing to ingrain in part because you're just you know you're it's open to you having to think about it and then it's easier for you to decide at each point in time kind of not to do it and the only way something becomes a routine is when you do it over and over again now there are these there are these kind of pop culture ideas about you know it takes 28 days to create a habit or you know whatever the number might be that the the person will give you

becomes a much harder thing to ingrain in part because you're just you know you're it's open to you having to think about it and then it's easier for you to decide at each point in time kind of not to do it and the only way something becomes a routine is when you do it over and over again now there are these there are these kind of pop culture ideas about you know it takes 28 days to create a habit or you know whatever the number might be that the the person will give you

becomes a much harder thing to ingrain in part because you're just you know you're it's open to you having to think about it and then it's easier for you to decide at each point in time kind of not to do it and the only way something becomes a routine is when you do it over and over again now there are these there are these kind of pop culture ideas about you know it takes 28 days to create a habit or you know whatever the number might be that the the person will give you

And in general, you know, what we know from the little bit of research that's been done on this is that it really varies across people and it varies across habits. But, you know, for the same habit, one person might need a month to make it kind of, you know, a part of their routine and one person might need a lot longer.

And in general, you know, what we know from the little bit of research that's been done on this is that it really varies across people and it varies across habits. But, you know, for the same habit, one person might need a month to make it kind of, you know, a part of their routine and one person might need a lot longer.

And in general, you know, what we know from the little bit of research that's been done on this is that it really varies across people and it varies across habits. But, you know, for the same habit, one person might need a month to make it kind of, you know, a part of their routine and one person might need a lot longer.

And I don't I don't think we understand, you know, where those differences between people come from, but we know that they exist.

And I don't I don't think we understand, you know, where those differences between people come from, but we know that they exist.

And I don't I don't think we understand, you know, where those differences between people come from, but we know that they exist.

Yes. A routine is often going to be kind of a chain of different things. Like, you know, going to the gym involves putting on your gym clothes and then, you know, Like getting to the gym and then signing in at the gym and then going and getting on the treadmill. So there's a whole bunch of things there. We usually think of habits as more sort of smaller, like atomic pieces of behavior.

Yes. A routine is often going to be kind of a chain of different things. Like, you know, going to the gym involves putting on your gym clothes and then, you know, Like getting to the gym and then signing in at the gym and then going and getting on the treadmill. So there's a whole bunch of things there. We usually think of habits as more sort of smaller, like atomic pieces of behavior.

Yes. A routine is often going to be kind of a chain of different things. Like, you know, going to the gym involves putting on your gym clothes and then, you know, Like getting to the gym and then signing in at the gym and then going and getting on the treadmill. So there's a whole bunch of things there. We usually think of habits as more sort of smaller, like atomic pieces of behavior.

So like each of the little things I have to do, you know, putting on my clothes or getting in the car or driving to the gym. Each of those little things we might think of as a habit and a routine you can sort of think of as like a bunch of habits put together in some sense. You know, addictions are...

So like each of the little things I have to do, you know, putting on my clothes or getting in the car or driving to the gym. Each of those little things we might think of as a habit and a routine you can sort of think of as like a bunch of habits put together in some sense. You know, addictions are...

So like each of the little things I have to do, you know, putting on my clothes or getting in the car or driving to the gym. Each of those little things we might think of as a habit and a routine you can sort of think of as like a bunch of habits put together in some sense. You know, addictions are...

I think of addictions as kind of like the hijacking of the habit system by these unnaturally strong stimuli that the modern world gives us. And the thing that differs about when we think about what is an addiction versus a habit, the thing that really differs is this kind of, as you mentioned earlier, this kind of emotional craving or this incentive to need to do something.

I think of addictions as kind of like the hijacking of the habit system by these unnaturally strong stimuli that the modern world gives us. And the thing that differs about when we think about what is an addiction versus a habit, the thing that really differs is this kind of, as you mentioned earlier, this kind of emotional craving or this incentive to need to do something.

I think of addictions as kind of like the hijacking of the habit system by these unnaturally strong stimuli that the modern world gives us. And the thing that differs about when we think about what is an addiction versus a habit, the thing that really differs is this kind of, as you mentioned earlier, this kind of emotional craving or this incentive to need to do something.