{"id":152,"date":"2013-08-07T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T01:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodhabitsgoodstudents.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2013-08-07T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T01:46:37","slug":"the-brain-seems-to-like-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/2013\/08\/07\/the-brain-seems-to-like-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"The brain seems to like habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2013\/08\/for-the-brain-practice-makes-efficiency-not-perfection\/\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2013\/08\/for-the-brain-practice-makes-efficiency-not-perfection\/\">ArsTechnica&#8217;s John Timmer reports on a recent study with monkeys<\/a> showing that when performing a habitual activity, the brain uses less energy to complete the task.<\/p>\n<p>We are seeing more and more of such reports as neuroscience works to discover exactly how the brain works. What&#8217;s striking is how often these new studies seem to confirm what thinkers from Aristotle to William James have been telling us for centuries: turning a desirable behaviour into a habit has tremendous advantages!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArsTechnica&#8217;s John Timmer reports on a recent study with monkeys showing that when performing a habitual activity, the brain uses less energy to complete the task. We are seeing more and more of such reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}