How to Change Behaviour

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There's this another eminent, a kind of the founding father of social psychology, called kurt lewin. He would look at these systems and try to understand behaviour from the system's perspective. And so he thought of behavior as like, forces and afield which ar things that he's borrowing from physics,. Or is to their forcess that are acting on you. Is the same as climate like, if you remove the forces that are working against you, your relieving tension in the system humwhich is better. Then if you add an incentive, it's like, yes, you're helping yourself get to the make yourself more likely to get to the behaviour that you want but you're

There is no general theory of problem-solving, or even a reliable set of principles that will usually work. It’s therefore interesting to see how our brains actually go about solving problems. Here’s an interesting feature that you might not have guessed: when faced with an imperfect situation, our first move to improve it tends to involve adding new elements, rather than taking away. We are, in general, resistant to subtractive change. Leidy Klotz is an engineer and designer who has worked with psychologists and neuroscientists to study this phenomenon. We talk about how our relative blindness to subtractive possibilities manifests itself, and what lessons might be for design more generally.

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Leidy Klotz received his Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering from Penn State University. He is currently Copenhaver Associate Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment and Architecture at the University of Virginia. Before becoming a professor, he worked as a school designer, and before that was a professional soccer player for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. His new book is Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less.