Bad Habits

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

How do habits influence behavior? Significantly, according to returning Remnant favorite Cass Sunstein, Harvard professor and co-author of the new book Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There. In it, he argues that breaking habits and routines can enable us to find greater fulfillment in life. But why did humans evolve to acquire habits in the first place? How do habits desensitize us? And how can we encourage people to adopt healthy habits of the heart? Show Notes: - Cass’ new book, Look Again - Cass and co-author Tali Sharot on how we become habituated to horrible things - Cass’ Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.
0:17.0	Can I please have your attention?
0:19.0	Tell you, Jim Geegan! Go, Jigya! Jigya! Greetings dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcasts, brought to you
0:30.9	by the Dispatch and Dispatch media.
0:33.0	Very excited to have a return guest, literally not figuratively, the most cited legal scholar in the known universe.
0:41.0	Sorry, I just saw Dune last night so some of these phrases are going to keep popping up.
0:44.6	He's a professor at Harvard Law School. He served in the White House and the Obama
0:48.1	administration. He ran the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
0:52.4	He's written a bunch of books.
0:53.5	He's been on here before to talk about some of those other books,
0:56.1	he's a fellow dog lover.
0:57.6	You got a new book.
0:58.6	Look again.
0:59.7	The power of noticing what was always there with his co-author,
1:03.4	Tally Schorot.
1:04.8	Cast Sunstein, welcome back to the remnant.
1:06.8	Pleasure to be here.
1:07.8	Thanks for having me.
1:09.4	So the first rule in this podcast
1:11.9	when we have authors with new books is to ask them
1:13.7	the question I always want to get when I'm on a book tour. What's your book about?
1:17.6	It's about the phenomenon of habituation and before you fall asleep let me explain it you go swimming in the
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