ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have been undeservedly lucky throughout my life to work with people
who are more talented than I am, and to get to steal their wisdom and
gracefulness and pass it off as my own.
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Appendix
APPENDIX
A Reader’s Guide to Using These Ideas
The difficult thing about studying the science of habits is that most
people, when they hear about this field of research, want to know the
secret formula for quickly changing any habit. If scientists have
discovered how these patterns work, then it stands to reason that they
must have also found a recipe for rapid change, right?
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Afterword
AFTERWORD
Some Things Learned About Weight Loss, Smoking, Procrastination,
and Teaching
A few months after The Power of Habit was published, I was at my
desk at The New York Times when an email appeared in my in-box.
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The Neurology of Free Will
THE NEUROLOGY OF FREE WILL
Are We Responsible for Our Habits?
I.
The morning the trouble began—years before she realized there was
even trouble in the first place—Angie Bachmann was sitting at home,
staring at the television, so bored that she was giving serious thought
to reorganizing the silverware drawer.
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Saddleback Church and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
SADDLEBACK CHURCH AND THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
How Movements Happen
I.
The 6 P.M. Cleveland Avenue bus pulled to the curb and the petite
forty-two-year-old African American woman in rimless glasses and a
conservative brown jacket climbed on board, reached into her purse, and dropped a ten-cent fare into the till.
The Power of Habit is a work of nonfiction. Nonetheless, some names and personal
characteristics of individuals or events have been changed in order to disguise identities. Any
resulting resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and unintentional.
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