The "21 days to form a habit" myth needs to die. There is no magic number for habit formation—and believing there is actually makes building good habits harder. Here's why: When we expect habits ...

A new study suggests that forming healthy new habits takes a lot longer than we thought. For years, popular wisdom has held that it takes just 21 days to add a new habit to your daily routine.

We're nearly one month into 2025, but if you're struggling to hold onto your New Year's resolution, stay strong, as new research shows that forming a healthy habit can take longer than you expect.

Most mornings, Greg Brooks wakes up and heads to a 7-Eleven for a meat stick. He’s promptly bombarded with choices, from the classic Slim Jim to a proliferation of options promising to be ...

Old habits die hard — but so are new ones borne. Life hackers have long hypothesized about the existence of a provable time benchmark when a new practice becomes a disciplined skill. Old myths ...

New research finds that it takes significantly more than a month for a new habit to form. Scientists at the University of South Australia conducted the study, a review of the existing evidence on ...

American consumers have a growing appetite for what snackers alternately call meat, or snack, sticks, and they’ve never been more spoiled for choice. - Elizabeth Coetzee/WSJ Most mornings, Greg ...