#107 - Art Markman, PhD, author of “Smart Thinking – Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others”. Your brain is a habit making machine and Art dissects this and gets to the root of why we have habits, good and bad and how to overcome them if desired. Art has authored articles and books and is on the faculty of the University of Texas. We chat about the matter of our brains and how they are striving for efficiency. Art get’s into our motivational system and the psychology and behavioral science behind our thinking.  http://www.smartthinkingbook.com/  http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/psychology/faculty/markman  https://twitter.com/abmarkman  http://art.markman.socialpsychology.org/  art.markman@gmail.com  http://www.prx.org/series/33266-two-guys-on-your-head  study on regret http://psych.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/Gilo_%26_Medvec_95.pdf  Intro: Just Darren and Grimerica in this short intro. Graham runs down the podcast and a shout out to their friends at Reflective Air podcast. Some listener feedback is shared and a couple synchronicities. Thanks for listening. http://reflectiveair.com/  http://www.freemeditation.com/meditation-classes/  Thanks all the contributors on this value for value model  Grimerica’s Honey DoBeDoBeDo List: !! – Please Help support the show.  Grimerica is fully and solely listener supported. We adhere to the Value for Value model.  0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites… just many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!!  Check out all the other donation types, and get a Grimerica email addy: http://www.grimerica.ca/support/  Listen live and join the chat: www.Mixlr.com/grimerica . Check out the updated schedule @: http://www.grimerica.ca/backstage/  Sign up for our newsletter  http://www.grimerica.ca/news Leave a comment, ideas and guest/topic suggestions under any episode or blog http://www.grimerica.ca/  Leave a voicemail http://www.grimerica.ca/  SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com Tweet Darren https://twitter.com/Grimerica  Leave a review on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-grimerica-show/id653314424?mt=2#  Thanks to Wayne Darnell for help with the website. http://www.darnelldigitalink.com/  Check out the Paradigm Symposium 2015. We will be there again!! Year 4 http://paradigmsymposium.com/  http://www.live365.com/stations/roccijstucci    MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key FoxFire - J.G.F If You Only Knew - Jacoo It’s a Dirty Habit - Hypha   Bad Habit - Susy Sun