If you’re among the 41% of Americans who set New Year’s resolutions, then chances are your goals have something to do with changing your habits—whether it’s building new ones, or getting rid of bad ones.
“Habits help us put desirable behaviors on auto-pilot so we don’t have to deliberate about whether they’re worthwhile or plan exactly how we’ll execute on our good intentions,” says Katy Milkman, author of How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be and the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
