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Metacognition Part 9: The Neuroscience of Habits – The 21-Day Lie and the Truth

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  1. Columnist Lee Seon-yeong has written a column arguing that the claim that a habit forms in 21 days is a myth with no scientific basis.
  2. The column cites a January 2025 announcement from a research team at the University of South Australia, which found that forming a habit takes 59-66 days on average, and up to 335 days at most.
  3. The column proposes five metacognition-based steps for building habits, including signal design, starting small and failure analysis, along with a mission for this week.

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Metacognition Part 9: The Neuroscience of Habits – The 21-Day Lie and the Truth

Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): 메타인지 제9편 : 습관의 신경과학 – 21일의 거짓말과 진실

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