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Bad Habits

Bad Habits

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

March 6, 20241h 22m

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Show Notes

How do habits influence behavior? Significantly, according to returning Remnant favorite Cass Sunstein, Harvard professor and co-author of the new book Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There. In it, he argues that breaking habits and routines can enable us to find greater fulfillment in life. But why did humans evolve to acquire habits in the first place? How do habits desensitize us? And how can we encourage people to adopt healthy habits of the heart?


Show Notes:


- Cass’ new book, Look Again


- Cass and co-author Tali Sharot on how we become habituated to horrible things 


- Cass’ Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech


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