This is Steva Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

I'm here today with New York Times reporter, editor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Charles Duhigg,

author of The Power of Habit, and the Just Coming Out Smarter, Faster, Better.

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slash get. Welcome, Charles. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me. So I've been reading your book, and as I'm sure everyone is telling you, you're a fabulous storyteller, and I now have a phobia of airplanes.

Everything turns out all right in the end of the chapter, So it's, you don't have to be concerned.

But I'd like to start by asking you, so you're talking about smarter, faster, better. And this is basically, these are concepts that can be applied to just about everything in life. What is it, what area of life should we be thinking about as we approach you and approach this book?

So as we're listening even to this podcast, what should we be asking ourselves about where can we get the most impact by applying what we're about to hear?

Well, I think the answer to that is that a lot of it has to do with helping you realize where you want to be more productive, right?

I mean, one of the interesting things that we know from studies is that productivity tends to

differ from person to person in time of week to time of week. Some people spend a Wednesday morning

and they just want to get their kids dropped off at school so they can get to their desk and

start powering through emails, and to them that's productivity. But for other people, productivity might mean that you have

enough time and that you're not stressed so you can take your kid to school and have a leisurely walk

with them and talk about the day, or go for a run. Productivity is different on a Saturday morning

than it is on a Wednesday morning. And what the book is really about is these tactics, these abilities that the most productive

people and the most productive companies share that allow them to think a little bit deeper

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