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The psychology behind breaking bad habits

It comes down to three easy steps.

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Sometimes we eat too much, or stay up too late staring at our phones, or skip morning yoga.

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It’s easy to prescribe faults in personality like “laziness” or “apathy” to someone (or ourselves) for having bad habits.

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