Ultimately, it comes down to the most clichéd but scientifically true maxim: practice, practice, practice. To create new, good habits, you have to repeat them over and over again until your brain rewires itself. At the end of the day, repeating actions is the only way to get them encoded into the dorsal striatum. It may take a lot of time and patience, but once you train your dorsal striatum, it’ll start working for you instead of against you; we’ll cover that more in chapter 8. And it’s pretty amazing that it’s possible—no matter how old you are, you still have the power to change your brain
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