What if you could take a pill that would make you noticeably smarter? Would you?

A few weeks back, I solicited and received feedback from you on how to improve the newsletter. A friend suggested that I include stories in order to infuse life into these staid textual references. What started with a few thoughts about the meaning of these quotes and how to add a few stories, ended up with a lot of thoughts and questions about the purpose of the newsletter overall.

In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on how to change other’s habits.

Habit switching, just like task switching, requires mental energy. Every time we make a decision, we deplete our energy stores and make it just a little more likely that we’re going to engage our default behaviors rather than our desired behaviors.

This issue contains a brief overview on habits. We’ll look at some of the most interesting and influential thinkers on habits - who they are, what they’ve said about habits, how we form habits, and how habits form us.