Say I want my partner to stop cracking his knuckles or get my daughter to put down her mobile phone at meal times or start someone else exercising: how do I do that?
It's not something I cover in the book, which focuses mainly on how habits work, how much of our everyday lives they influence and how to change your own personal habits.
Ultimately the same techniques apply; but when you are working on someone else, you've got to take a few steps back. Do they want to change? If not, can you persuade them? How will this attempt to change them affect your relationship?
Then, if you manage that, you can move on to using all the same techniques that you might use on yourself.
So here are three preliminary things to think about when trying to change someone else's habits.
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