Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick Book by Wendy Wood

Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood explores the science behind why habits form and persist—roughly 40–43% of daily actions happen automatically—and offers strategies to harness this unconscious power to build beneficial habits and break harmful ones. Wood draws from 30 years of research in psychology and neuroscience, weaving together studies, experiments, and real-world examples to show that context, cues, repetition, and friction shape behavior more effectively than sheer willpower.