What is choice bias? Choice bias is the reason the same sandwich tastes better when you order it off a menu compared with when someone else picks it out for you. It’s also an effective tool for teaching yourself good habits. Our preferences for making our own choices can be used to reinforce our learning. Changes in brain activity make us more likely to repeat actions that produce rewards. This is especially true when we’re in charge of the prizes. Learn to use choice bias in

Both sides of your bed may look the same, but you’ve probably heard the old joke about waking up on the wrong side of the bed. Scientists have discovered there’s some truth to the idea. Researchers at Penn State University asked 240 adults to use their smartphones to fill out stress surveys and complete working memory exercises many times each day. Participants who were the most stressed in the morning, experienced most difficulty in learning and remembering information in th

We all do things that annoy other people or even hold us back from achieving success. Our own habits often irritate us – even though we're the guilty party. But despite this, we continue with our destructive behavior. Think about bad habits as weeds that have the potential to choke out the important, beautiful and beneficial plants in our gardens. It's time to get rid of annoying habits! Here are ways to eliminate bad habits: Identify the issue. To get rid of a weed, you mu

If you want to consistently improve yourself, you’ll often have to change your behaviors. Sometimes, it is easy. You simply decide what you want to alter, and do so. But more often than not, it is not so straight forward, even though you may know the change is for the best. So what can you do to make permanent changes in your behavior when you’re struggling to stick to new ways of doing things? How do you go about establishing a new habit so that it becomes something you do a