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‘The Power of Habit’ Nicely Dissects How and Why We Do Things

Charles Duhigg elegantly dissects the way habits affect our lives, writes Jesse Singal.

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If you punch “self-help” into Amazon, you’ll get something like 294,000 results. We are a people profoundly concerned with improving our weight or athletic performance or sex lives, always looking for easy fixes, for effortless ways to change our most ingrained habits.

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