Habits & Behavior Change

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How to Stay Motivated with Dr. Ayelet Fishbach

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Ayelet Fishbach, PhD, is the Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business . She is the past president of the Society for the Science of Motivation and the International Social Cognition Network. She is an expert on motivation and decision making. Dr. Fishbach’s groundbreaking research on human motivation has won the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s Best Dissertation Award and Career Trajectory Award, and the Fulbright Educational Foundation Award.

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Ayelet Fishbach and I Discuss How to Stay Motivated and …

• Her book, Get It Done:  Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation
• The myth of motivation is that we are failures
• Changing our situations is the most important step in staying motivated
• Setting goals for our real life situations, not our ideal situations
• Finding empathy for our future self
• Intrinsic motivation predicts sustained engagement 
• Choosing powerful goals that seem exciting and not a chore
• Approach goals as opposed to avoidance goals
• How assigning numbers to goals can be powerful
• The importance of framing our goals
• Why will power alone does not work
• Strategies for managing competing goals
• Remembering that we don’t have to act on our thoughts or ideas
• The middle problem when it’s hard to see progress and stay motivated
• Using time brackets for your goals 
• Why some goals never become habit
• The role of incentives in achieving goals
• How important it is to track progress

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Emily Balcetis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. She is the author of more than 70 scientific publications and her work has been covered in Forbes, Newsweek, Time, National Public Radio, Cosmopolitan, GQ, and many others.  She has also received numerous awards for her work.   

Eric and Emily discuss her book, Clearer, Closer, Better:  How Successful People See the World

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Emily Balcetis and I Discuss How to Focus and Accomplish Goals and…

• Her book, Clearer, Closer, Better:  How Successful People See the World
• Her decision to tackle learning to play drums
• The four tools of accomplishing a goal
• What it means to materialize a goal
• How our brains can’t be trusted to accurately assess our progress toward our goal
• The importance of writing down and tracking progress 
• Figuring out what we want to accomplish AND creating a plan of action
• Foreshadowing obstacles that might get in our way and how you’ll deal with them increases your chances of success
• The value of narrowing your focus of attention
• How time is a big determinant of what goals we set and whether we reach those goals
• Finding ways to connect your current self with your future self can make it easier to make tougher choices that lead to better outcomes later
• How it sometimes makes sense to have a “wide bracket” or broader perspective
• The power of framing and how what we see predicts what we do

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Stephen Guise is an international best-selling author, blogger, and entrepreneur.  His books have been translated into 17 languages, including his latest book, Elastic Habits:  How to Create Smarter Habits That Adapt to Your Day.

Eric and Stephen discuss his unique approach to creating good habits that are adaptable to your life and unique circumstances.

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Stephen Guise and I Discuss How to Form Elastic Habits and…

• His book,  Elastic Habits:  How to Create Smarter Habits That Adapt to Your Day
• How bad habits fulfill some needs
• An elastic habit is one that creates flexibility and more points of progress
• How flexibility is strength when it comes to obstacles
• Lateral flexibility is having several different options to achieve the same goal
• Vertical flexibility is having the option to move the intensity of the activity up or down
• The roles of the different levels:  mini, plus, and elite
• How to work with feelings and motivation in establishing habits
• How to apply the lateral and vertical flexibility to habits 
• Cues or triggers are what prompts you to do the behavior
• The different types of cues or triggers:  time. activity, daily, emotional, and window 
• Intelligent tracking and why it’s important in establishing new habits
• The process for creating and implementing “elastic” habits 

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Katy Milkman is a Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab’s popular podcast “Choiceology with Katy Milkman”, which explores key lessons from behavioral economics about decision making, and the former president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. She’s also the co-founder and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative.

In this episode, Eric and Katy discuss her book, How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. 

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In This Interview, Katy Milkman and I Discuss How to Change and …

• Her book, How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
• The biggest barriers to change (and how to overcome them)
• The importance of recognizing the choices you’re making when you’re actually making them
• The benefit of making it fun to do what’s needed to accomplish goals
• How to combine intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to maximize the benefit
• The non-linear nature of change
• The key to sustained habits
• How important it is to apply both flexibility and discipline to habits

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