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.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McHydus.

Good day!

And thanks for dropping on by for episode 778 with Russ Poldrak.

Russ works at Stanford doing some cutting-edge research on our brains and habits so we can

benefit from his wisdom to learn one, how to make good habits stick to how to strengthen

our brains against bad habits and three, why habits never really go away and what we should

do instead.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or some pieces that we reference

here, pay a visit at awesomeatyourjob.com slash EP7778 and if you add awesomeatyourjob.com

check out some goodies such as the Goldnugget email list, which lets you see the summary actionable

tidbits that Russ shared emailed a write to your inbox when each new guest goes live as

well as unlocking the whole archive of all 778 of these summary write-ups.

Those are called the Goldnuggets and you can find them at awesomeatyourjob.com.

And here's Russ's story, Russell A. Poldrak is a psychologist and neuroscientist.

He is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.

He's also the Associate Director of Stanford Data Science, a member of the Stanford Neuroscience

Institute and Director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience and the SDS Center

for Open and Reproducible Science.

Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 2014, he held faculty positions at Harvard

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