How you can shape your habits before they shape you | Manuel Heredia | TEDxCIS SFP Youth

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Think about what you did yesterday. Now keep only what was different. What's left (that repetitive, almost invisible layer) is your habits. And even though they go completely unnoticed, they control a large part of your life. Manuel Heredia explains, with both rigour and humour, how habits work in the brain: why they're so hard to break, what endless phone scrolling has to do with it, and how he decided to change his own habits. Not all at once, not through sheer willpower, but by understanding the mechanisms behind them and replacing one behaviour with another. In an era of screens designed to hook us in, this talk is a practical (and honest) guide to taking back control of your attention. Because either you shape your habits, or your habits will shape you. Manuel Heredia Estrada, born in 2011, is studying at the San Francisco de Paula school in Seville, his hometown. He is a passionate learner of all the main subjects, and has taken part in several contests, ranging from robot combat

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