Katy Milkman on Creating Lasting Behavior Change for Good EP 155

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Dr. Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Endowed Chair at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and the former president of the International Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change. Her bestselling book How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be was named one of the eight best books for healthy living in 2021 by the New York Times, and Katy was also named one of the world’s top 50 Management thinkers by Thinkers50 in 2021.

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What I discuss with Katy Milkman In this episode of the Passion Struck Podcast

Katy Milkman joins us to discuss how she is advancing the science of behavior change to understand which strategies work best overall, what works best for whom, and how to most effectively use behavioral science to help people transform their lives for the better.  We go into why she created the largest interdisciplinary effort in history to solve the problem of enduring behavior change.

• 0:00 Announcements
• 2:36 Introducing Katy Milkman
• 4:47 Better Change for Good Initiative
• 11:35 Using a megastudy approach
• 12:21 Importance of intentionality in behavior change
• 14:54 How to master behavior change
• 23:09 We think we will change far less than we actually do
• 26:55 The micro-choices determine our lives
• 29:34 Internal barriers to change
• 35:20 Fresh start effect
• 42:43 The psychology of persuasion
• 44:34 Effortless perfection
• 50:02 How we live matches our goals
• 54:43 Why we chose immediate gratification
• 57:09 Wrap-Up and Synthesis

Where you can find Katy Milkman:

* Website: https://www.katymilkman.com/

* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katymilkman/

* Choiceology Podcast: https://www.katymilkman.com/podcast 

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/katy_milkman

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katy-milkman/

* Behavior Change for Good Initiative: https://bcfg.wharton.upenn.edu/ 

Links from the show

* My interview with David Yaden on self-transcendence, psychedelics, and behavior change: https://passionstruck.com/david-yaden-on-self-transcendence-experiences/ 

* My solo episode on why you must feel to heal: https://passionstruck.com/why-you-must-feel-to-find-emotional-healing/

* My interview with Cathy Heller: https://passionstruck.com/cathy-heller-how-do-you-find-your-lifes-passion/

* My interview with Michael Slepian:  https://passionstruck.com/michael-slepian-the-secret-life-of-secrets/

* My interview with Jordan Harbinger on Why Legacy is Greater Than Currency:  https://passionstruck.com/jordan-harbinger-on-why-building-your-legacy-is-greater-than-currency/

* My interview with Sarah Fay on the fallacies of the DSM: https://passionstruck.com/sarah-fay-pathological/ 

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