Making health habitual

Abstract

I was delighted to find that Gardner's useful article on promoting healthy habits1 referred to Kahneman's Nobel prize-winning findings about how people think. Kahneman's central point is that we use two different kinds of thinking. ‘System 1’ thinking works fast, using intuitive mental short-cuts. ‘System 2’ thinking is slower, rational, and deliberative. In his very readable book2 Kahneman demonstrates that System …