A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.  —Smiley Blanton

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. —Eleanor Roosevelt

What if curiosity is the key to creating the changes you want? Judson Brewer, psychiatrist and director of research at the Center for Mindfulness Studies, has studied bad habits — why we have them and what we can do about them.

In this 10-minute TED talk, you’ll see how cravings and addictions — smoking, stress eating, compulsive urges to check email — emerge from habit loops wired into our brains. We know they are bad for us, we want to change, we try to make ourselves change, and then find ourselves reaching for another cookie.

Learn from a thought leader in the science of self-mastery how to step off the hamster wheel and experience a much more enjoyable — and effective — path to freedom from habits that aren’t really what you want.