{"id":5139,"date":"2012-03-18T04:29:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T09:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2012-03-18T04:29:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T09:29:02","slug":"reposthow-companies-learn-your-secrets-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/18\/reposthow-companies-learn-your-secrets-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::How Companies Learn Your Secrets &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Once I figured out all the parts of the loop, it seemed fairly easy to change my habit. But the psychologists and neuroscientists warned me that, for my new behavior to stick, I needed to abide by the same principle that guided Procter &amp; Gamble in selling Febreze: To shift the routine \u2014 to socialize, rather than eat a cookie \u2014 I needed to piggyback on an existing habit. So now, every day around 3:30, I stand up, look around the newsroom for someone to talk to, spend 10 minutes gossiping, then go back to my desk. The cue and reward have stayed the same. Only the routine has shifted. It doesn\u2019t feel like a decision, any more than the M.I.T. rats made a decision to run through the maze. It\u2019s now a habit. I\u2019ve lost 21 pounds since then (12 of them from changing my cookie ritual).<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/19\/magazine\/shopping-habits.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all\">How Companies Learn Your Secrets &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once I figured out all the parts of the loop, it seemed fairly easy to change my habit. But the psychologists and neuroscientists warned me that, for my new behavior to stick, I needed to abide by the same principle that guided Procter &amp; Gamble in selling Febreze: To shift the routine \u2014 to socialize, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/18\/reposthow-companies-learn-your-secrets-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::How Companies Learn Your Secrets &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}