Opinion

Tarnya Davis writes: Among other things, COVID-19 has created an environment for making positive changes in our lives

By Tarnya Davis
Updated May 29 2020 - 10:33am, first published 10:00am
There is some good that has come out of COVID-19
There is some good that has come out of COVID-19

It's hard to change our habits. Our brains are wired to stick to the familiar old patterns, and making changes is akin to rewiring our brains so the familiar river of neurons firing together branches off into another trickle - the new way of doing things. It's only through doing something again and again the new way that this trickle becomes a stream, a familiar habit. Yet the old way is still there, easy, like an old pair of shoes and it can be very easy to slip back.

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