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How Habits Can Change Your Life (and Your Brain)

Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.

How Habits Can Change Your Life (and Your Brain)

Season 6 Episode 24 | 5m 48s | CC

Got a bad habit you just can’t seem to break? That’s because it’s literally wired into your brain. Every single thought, action, and feeling changes your brain. When repeated enough times, a habit is formed. This week we’ll talk about how an advertiser in the early 1900s got half of Americans to pick up a new behavior - and make it a habit we all know today.

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