![]() But, on occasion, it makes it seem nearly impossible to break bad habits-or integrate new ones-when we don’t know what’s happening inside the black box of the unconscious. In general, this modus operandi of our minds leads to incredible benefits. Constantly striving for more efficiency, the brain quickly transforms as many tasks and behaviors as possible into habits so that we can do them without thinking, thus freeing up more brainpower to tackle new challenges. Habits are the brain’s own internal productivity drivers. ![]() ![]() It doesn’t matter whether consciousness is involved in the decision making. As neuroscientist David Eagleman writes in Incognito, “Brains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. Who we are and what we accomplish depends largely on a vast network of routines and behaviors that we carry out with little to no thought whatsoever. In the workplace and in life, we are little more than the sum of our habits.
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