665: How to Make Lasting Change – According to Science – with Katy Milkman

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🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Behavioral scientist and Wharton professor Katy Milkman reveals how behavioral science can help you make changes that stick.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The top obstacles of change–and how to overcome them

2) How to overcome your impulsivity

3) How you can make your laziness work for you

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— ABOUT KATY —

Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and the former president of the international Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Over the course of her career, she has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change, including Google, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Walmart.

An award-winning scholar and teacher, Katy writes frequently about behavioral science for major media outlets such as The Washington Post and The New York Times. Her book How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You are to Where You Want to Be came out two days ago! She earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University (summa cum laude), and her PhD from Harvard University where she studied Computer Science and Business.

• Book: How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

• Newsletter: Milkman Delivers

• Podcast: Choiceology

• Website: KatyMilkman.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

• Book: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaier and Cass Sunstein

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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 Makaitas.
0:19.0	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 665 with Katie Milkman.
0:24.0	If you've ever struggled to make that change,
0:27.0	and just fell flat, maybe more times than you care to admit,
0:31.0	Katie is bringing the goods with her boat loads of research-science-backed approaches for making lasting change.
0:40.0	So you'll learn one, the top obstacles of change and how to overcome them.
0:43.0	Two, how to overcome your own impulsivity.
0:46.0	And three, how you can make your laziness work for you.
0:50.0	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to as we referenced,
0:53.0	drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP665.
0:56.0	And if you're at awesome at your job.com, I encourage you to check out our Gold Nuggets Summer emails,
1:01.0	which give you the quick summarized reader-friendly version of the episode insights right to your inbox,
1:10.0	as well as access to the vault of all of these Gold Nuggets over at awesome at your job.com.
1:14.0	Now here's Katie Story. Katie Milkman is the James G. Deanan professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
1:21.0	Hosted the Charles Schwab popular behavioral economics podcast choiceology and the former president of the International Society for Judgment and Decision Making.
1:31.0	It's a lot of pressure to have good judgment with that role.
1:34.0	Over the course of her career, she has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change, including Google,
1:40.0	the US Department of Defense and Walmart.
1:42.0	Katie is an award-winning scholar and teacher who writes frequently about behavioral science for major media outlets such as The Washington Post,
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