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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

033: Making and Breaking Habits through Design with Victor Yocco

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

User Experience designer and recovering alcoholic Victor Yocco speaks about habit formation–good and bad. 


You’ll Learn:

1. Victor’s personal story and implications for forming effective habits and breaking ineffective ones

2. The power of teaming up with others to achieve your ambitions

3. How to use a design approach to construct and reach your career goals


About Victor

Victor is a Philadelphia-based research director, author, and speaker. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University, where he studied communication and psychology. Victor regularly writes and speaks on the application of psychology to design and addressing the design and tech culture of promoting alcohol use. He has written for A List Apart, Smashing Magazine, UX Booth, User Experience Magazine (UXPA) and many more. He is the author of Design for the Mind, a book from Manning Publications on the application of principles of psychology to design.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis. Hello, hello and welcome to episode 33. I'm looking forward to sharing with you this

0:25.8

guest Victor Yaku who's got a bit of a different feel than some of the other guests.

0:30.2

Back at episode 19 I was chatting with Arel Moody about likeability so check that one out if you haven't already and he said a boy it was funny how you just kept drilling into me for more tips and practices and tactics and things to do to increase likeability.

0:43.0

And I was like, oh yeah, that's kind of how I like to roll.

0:45.0

It's like, yeah, some podcasters, all they care about is my personal story and journey and where I've been

0:49.6

is like, oh yeah, well, I like a little bit of that, more so tactics but what is it you a listener prefer you want to hear more story personal

0:58.1

Relatability stuff or more principles tactics wisdom knowledge you know stuff to go do from these wise folks so

1:05.2

trying to dial into that right balance and let me know Pete at awesome at your job

1:10.0

com shoot me an email with your feedback on this and every other point to make things more

1:14.9

on point. So that's much appreciated. So here, Victor, we are going to hear a good bit of his personal story and that's one of the first things

1:22.0

we're going to chat through is the story of him and alcohol and getting out of alcoholism and

1:27.3

implications he's discovered along the way as a designer when it comes to forming effective habits and breaking ineffective ones.

1:34.0

Secondly, the power of teaming up with others to achieve your ambitions and thirdly,

1:39.0

how to use a design approach to construct and reach your career goals.

1:44.2

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript, things mentioned, you can

1:47.5

find that over at awesome at your job.com slash app 33.

1:51.8

And if you want these takeaways faster, you can find that in the gold nugget

1:55.8

email list. So just go ahead and sign up there while you're there at

1:58.5

also at your job at com. Quick bit about Victor. Victor is a Philadelphia

2:02.4

based research director author and speaker.

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