Picture your typical morning. You wake up, maybe scroll through your phone, feel kind of bad about that, get up and brush your teeth. All this is a collection of habits. Some are healthy habits, some ...

In trying to hyper-optimize our lives, we’re likely to prune our habits and value systems more harshly than required. Here’s why. Most people assume their “bad habits” reveal something unflattering ...

It’s that time of year when most people set New Year’s resolutions, resolving to break bad habits and form new ones that will hopefully see them become a better person, whether that be intellectually, ...

Breaking your habits down into these fundamental categories can help you understand what a habit is, how it works, and how you can break it. This is known as the habit loop. Primarily, a cue is ...

It's easy to think of habits falling into black and white categories — exercising good, biting your nails bad. But habits also sit on a continuum in our ability to exercise control over them: Some are ...

Two psychologists weigh in below about what good after-work habits look like, what to avoid and how to foster a healthier ...