How habits form: why you do things you never decided to do
Old habits: why they come back after months away
Three months without the old habit, and you are sure it is gone. Then one small change at home puts it within reach again. Why do old habits come back?
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After three months of guitar evenings, the charger in the hall breaks, so tonight the phone stays in your pocket. Dinner ends, you sit down on the sofa, and for the first time in months, the phone is within reach.
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Your hand finds it at once, as fast as in the old days. An hour later, the guitar has not moved. Three months, and it is as if they never happened.
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