Katie Meltman is the author of How to Change. Her book focuses on getting from where you are to where you want to be. In our culture right now there's a overwhelming urge for the app or the algorithm that will solve problem x, she says. "I think we can find more meaning in life if we reflect more deeply about what really matters"
Behavioral scientist Katy Milkman of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania talks about her book How to Change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. What can we learn from research in psychology and behavioral economics about breaking the habits we want to change? Is that research reliable? And should Russ Roberts accept being overweight or keep working at finding the thinner man trying to get out?