Habitology: The Science and Art of Habit Formation and Development Through Philosophy: The Science and Art of Habit Formation and Development
Language: English
Published by Reedsy Publishing Company, 2024
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- Title
- Habitology: The Science and Art of Habit Formation and Development Through Philosophy: The Science and Art of Habit Formation and Development
- Author
- Bliss, Wilson
- Publisher
- Reedsy Publishing Company
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0932874460
- ISBN 13
- 9780932874467
A DIFFERENT WAY TO UNDERSTAND HABITS
Most books about habits begin with a simple question: How can you build better habits and break bad ones?
HABITOLOGY begins somewhere deeper.
A habit is not simply something you repeat until it becomes automatic. Habit formation is shaped by attention, expectation, emotion, identity, intention, environment, friction, and the circumstances in which behavior repeatedly occurs.
That is why knowing what you should do does not always make it easier to do it. It is also why some habits become remarkably persistent, why familiar patterns can survive even after circumstances change, and why changing one behavior can sometimes change other parts of life with it.
HABITOLOGY: The Science and Art of Habit Formation and Development Through Philosophy explores the psychology of habits and the deeper structure of human behavior.
Drawing together behavioral thinking and philosophical reflection, Wilson Bliss examines how habits form, why they become automatic, how they become connected to identity, and what happens when awareness begins to interrupt an established pattern.
Along the way, the book explores questions such as:
• Why do some habits become stronger than others?
• Why can intention fail to produce action?
• How do attention and expectation influence behavior?
• Why do we continue patterns that no longer serve us?
• How does the environment make some behaviors easier and others harder?
• What role do identity, emotion, and recognition play in lasting behavior change?
• What happens when a familiar habit no longer fits the life around it?
• How can understanding become deliberate action?
This is not simply a book about productivity, routines, or willpower.
It is a deeper exploration of habit formation, behavior change, self-understanding, personal development, and the relationship between repeated action and the kind of life we gradually create.
If you want to understand why habits are difficult to change, how behavioral patterns become established, and what makes deliberate change possible, HABITOLOGY offers a different way to look at the problem.
Because a habit is more than something you do repeatedly.
It is part of the way a life takes shape.
WILSON BLISS
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