How Small Habits Can Lead to Big Benefits

How Small Habits Can Lead to Big Benefits

We often focus on what we can do individually to change our lives and improve our futures—through our own willpower, choices, and internal narratives. But according to Gregory Walton, a professor of psychology at Stanford, “our sense of self, our confidence, and even our relationships are shaped by the environments we move through and the way others see us.” In other words, places and people outside of us influence us more than we think. Walton …