The beauty of good habits is that, like defaults that you can “set and forget,” they take advantage of our inherent laziness.fn5 Once honed, habits put good behaviors on autopilot so we engage in them without even thinking about it. In fact, in a fascinating series of six studies conducted with children and adults, psychologists Brian Galla and Angela Duckworth proved that positive habits are key to what we often mislabel “self-control.”
