Docs Who Lift How to Build Healthy Routines That Actually Stick
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Nov 12, 2025 Dr. Karin Norton, a behavior change scientist and founder of Body Brain Alliance, dives into building healthy routines that last. She reveals that motivation is a skill developed through self-efficacy and discusses the crucial difference between true habits and routine behaviors. Karin emphasizes the importance of aligning actions with long-term goals using future self-thinking. She shares practical strategies for lowering barriers, breaking tasks into small steps, and modeling healthy behaviors for children, debunking common myths in the process.
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Long Road From Failure To Behavior Science
- Dr. Karin Norton describes years of failed attempts with habit challenges and extremes like 75 Hard before studying behavior change.
- Her PhD work taught her methods that finally worked and contradicted pop-psych advice she had followed.
Motivation Is A Trainable Skill
- Motivation is a psychological skill, not merely a fleeting feeling, and can be learned and regulated.
- Generating or redirecting motivation is what people call discipline in pop culture.
Use Feeling To Fuel Action
- Feel your emotions but regulate them rather than suppressing them when following a plan.
- Use the emotion to fuel the behavior (e.g., do a rage lift when angry) instead of ignoring feelings.
