How to Build Better Habits

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A study that you did at google having to do with exercise also yields a another lesson beyond temptation bundling. This is one of my favorite studies i've ever run, in part ause i loved finding out i was wrong. And sometimes that's the most fun part of research. Is it better to been encouraged to go consistently, or encouraged to go in a more variable way? We see equal frequency of jim attendants. But one group, 85 % of their workouts were at this consistent time,. and the other group, only half of their workoutswere at a consistent time. They're much more variable an when they show up at the jimin so far, all that makes perfect

When Katy Milkman was a newly minted professor at Wharton, she came across a statistic that stopped her cold: 40 percent of premature deaths result from personal behaviors we can change. Katy decided to do something about that, and for the next decade, she conducted groundbreaking research into the science of achieving lasting behavior change. In “How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be,” she shares what she’s learned. The Next Big Idea Club named “How to Change” one of the best books of the year, and in this episode, Katy sits down with our curator Daniel Pink to tell him why a change in the weather can help you save money, how Harry Potter got her in better shape, and what an accidental breakthrough in mathematics reveals about boosting your self-confidence.