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The Science of Behavior Change: How to Reset Your Habits

The Science of Behavior Change: How to Reset Your Habits

We all want to have good habits. In a perfect world, we'd be fully in control of our wants and needs. We'd get up extra early, work out, eat our vegetables, and floss every time without fail. We wouldn't need to worry about changing our behavior because there'd be no behaviors we'd need to change! Unfortunately, life is nowhere near that simple. We give into…

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The Ikea Effect: We Care More When We Try Harder

The Ikea Effect: We Care More When We Try Harder

It should come as no surprise that we’re big fans of Dan Ariely’s work here at The Fabulous. His book Irrationally Yours is slightly different from his other works, as it’s not a book so much as a collection of letters from his Wall Street Journal advice column “Ask Ariely,” where he pens advice to readers on a wide variety of topics—from missing socks to…

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