Have you ever successfully kept a New Year resolution? No? Don’t worry polls show that 88% of people are in the same boat. This is the time of year where people set resolutions they can’t keep. Well actually, they’re less like”resolutions” than a vague passing notion that boils down to: “This is how I’d like to change myself in a perfect world where I can actually do what I say. I think I’ll try that for a few days before giving up.” So how do we make resolutions that actually work? Watch as I experiment on myself in this article.

How do cue and rewards relate to behavior?

First, I had to find out the theory behind building habits that stick. Wolfram Schultz, professor of neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, conducted several studies that revolutionized our understanding of how cues, habits and rewards interact. The experiment I found ......