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From Barnes & NobleHabits can save us or ruin us in a thousand ways; in fact, these automatic responses affect every arena of our lives. Charles Duhigg's bestseller shows us how understanding our "loopy" patterns can help us predict major life events or tap consumers' deepest predilections. Timothy D. WilsonI imagine that most peoplewould love to find an easy way of breaking a bad habit or two. Charles Duhigghas written an entertaining book to help us do just that, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. Duhigg has read hundreds of scientific papers and interviewed many of the scientists who wrote them, and relays interesting findings on habit formation and change from the fields of social psychology, clinical psychology and neuroscience.
About the Author
My name is Charles Duhigg, and I'm a reporter for The New York Times. I'm also the author of The Power of Habit, about the science of habit formation, as well as Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Productivity in Life and Business (which is available for sale on Amazon on March 8, 2016!) I've worked at the Times since 2006. In 2013, I was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for a series about Apple named "The iEconomy". Before that, I contributed to NYT series about the 2008 financial crisis, how companies take advantage of the elderly and national violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. (For those series, I won the National Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors' Medal, the National Academies' reporting award and other recognitions.) But let's be honest, you aren't visiting this page so I can brag about series and awards. (Unless you're my mom. Hi mom!) I'm also a native of New Mexico. I studied history at Yale and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. I now live in Brooklyn with my wife and two children and, before becoming a journalist, was a bike messenger in San Francisco for one terrifying day.I would love to hear from you. I'm at charles@charlesduhigg.com.
