599: How to Break the Habit of Anxiety using Curiosity with Dr. Jud Brewer
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jud Brewer discusses how anxiety leads us to form bad habits—and what we can do to make a change.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How anxiety takes over—and what we can do about it
2) Three steps to go from anxious to curious
3) How to put an end to bad habit loops for good
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— ABOUT DR. JUD —
Jud Brewer, MD PhD is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the science of self-mastery. He is the “executive medical director of behavioral health at Sharecare,”, the director of research and innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center, and an associate professor at Brown’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine. He is the author of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love, Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits.
• Dr. Jud’s book: The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits
• Dr. Jud’s website: DrJud.com
• Dr. Jud’s YouTube: DrJud
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | 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. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello, and thanks for joining us here |
| 0:20.9 | for episode 599 with Dr. Judd Brewer. |
| 0:24.0 | If you have experienced some anxiety lately or maybe just all the time, |
| 0:28.5 | Dr Judd has some really handy insights. |
| 0:31.0 | You'll learn one, how anxiety takes over and what to do about it. |
| 0:34.0 | Two, three steps to go from anxious to curious and three how to put an end to a bad |
| 0:40.1 | habit loops for good. So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcripts |
| 0:44.1 | or the links to as we've referenced, |
| 0:45.5 | visit awesome at your job.com. |
| 0:47.8 | slash EP 599. |
| 0:51.0 | Here's a bit about Judd Brewer MD PhD is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the science of self-mastery. |
| 0:58.0 | He is the Executive Medical Director of Behavioral Health at Share Care, the Director of Research and Innovation at Brown University's Mindfulness Center and an associate professor at Brown's School of Public Health and Medicine. He's the author of The Craving Mind from Cigarettes to Smartphones we get hooked and how we can break bad habits. |
| 1:17.0 | Big thanks to Judd for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors. Check them out. |
| 1:22.0 | Now, here's Judd. |
| 1:25.0 | Judd, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at Your Job |
| 1:28.0 | Podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, I'm excited to dig into your wisdom. |
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