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651: 79.00 Katy Milkman on her book - How to Change - science of getting from where you are to where you want to be

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Is There a New Answer to Private Commitments?

Katy Lorn: The more cost you impose on yourself for failure, the better. Public commitments are just one way to up the anti and make it costlier to fail. She says we should focus on building confidence rather than pointing out e mistakes people make. As a phd student she was advised by an unusually talented professor at harvard business school. He had this total faith that his students would succeed - different from most advisers. And maybe instead of always giving advice, when people come to us about their struggles they aren't soliciting advice but telling us what is wrong with them.

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