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Repetition is the key to controlling your brain, forming positive habits, and erasing self-destructive behaviors.  Psychologists from Britain’s University of Warwick collaborated with colleagues at Princeton and Brown Universities to create and study a digital mouse model that reveals the secrets of our brains’ habitual and goal-directed controllers.

In the experiment, the mice were first taught to trigger their goal-directed controller by pulling one of two levers that gave them a food reward.  When the reward lever was switched after only a few trials, the mice adapted and pulled the new lever in response to the goal-directed controller.  But when the reward lever was switched after many trials, their brain’s habitual controller became dominant and they continued to pull the same lever despite the lack of a reward.If you want to train your brain with a good habit or if you want to erase a bad habit, repeat the desired action over and over again.  With experience you will learn how often you must repeat an action to permit your habitual controller to achieve permanent dominance.

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University of Warwick. "Train the brain to form good habits through repetition." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 28 January 2019. .