We can all talk a good game - but how often do we actually deliver on the goods? If we know what we need to do to feel good, to attain and maintain good health, and achieve our goals and desires - why is that we find ourselves not doing the things?! Professor John Parkinson and Ben dive head first into the theories of behavioural psychology behind these patterns in us - where they come from, why they develop and what we can do to change them.

Here we cover:

🎯 The Intention-Action Gap

💡 The need for specificity in setting and achieving goals

🧠 Optimists and pessimists - do you believe you can or you can’t?

🏆 Fear of failing - we all know it, so what do we do with it?

🎲 Gamifying life - “how would you live differently if you viewed life as a game?”

👫 Gender differences in achievement, and optimism.

💪 Self-determination theory and 3 core motivating categories

Listen in to John and Ben's open discussion on how to stack the deck in your favour through understanding what is driving our behaviour, self-awareness and optimising your environment for goal achievement.

Find John:

Google Scholar

Public Health Wales - Behavioural Science Unit Website

Wales Centre for Behavioural Change blog

Mentioned in this episode:

Psychology Students’ Marathon Achievements

Book - Super Better by Jane McGonigal

Study - Motivation and Behaviour Change in Parkrun Participants

Book - Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Book - Determined: Life Without Free Will by Robert Sapolsky

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