BJ Fogg: ...how to move past habits that no longer serve you

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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What if you could change an old habit by working on it for just 30 seconds a day? Our guest on this episode, BJ Fogg, says that making new habits should be fast, easy, and fun -- and the steps are the same for whether you want to floss your teeth more or lose 200 pounds! He has researched human behavior for over twenty years and is the director of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University. He's also the author of the new book, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.5	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.8	Wouldn't it be great to discover a few simple steps you could take to improve your life?
0:20.3	Of course it would. And that's just what we'll do on this episode. We could take to improve your life. Of course it would.
0:21.1	And that's just what we'll do on this episode.
0:23.3	We are thrilled to welcome our guest, BJ Fogg,
0:26.4	whose researched human behavior for over 20 years at Stanford University
0:30.4	and is the director of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford.
0:34.5	He's also the author of a great new book called Tiny Habits,
0:39.0	The Small Changes That Change Everything.
0:41.8	B.J., thank you so much for joining us.
0:44.5	Thank you for inviting you, Jan, and Laura.
0:46.6	I'm really happy to be a few.
0:48.1	Well, we absolutely love the book, Tiny Habits,
0:50.8	because I think we can all relate to small changes.
0:54.6	Tell us a little bit about why it is that small changes change everything.
1:01.4	Wow, I have about five different answers for that, but I'll just start in with the simplest one.
1:05.7	Okay.
1:06.3	The simplest one is small changes we can make into reality.
1:11.3	Like making a tiny change through the tiny habits method, you can actually succeed at,
1:16.9	as opposed to trying something big and failing and feeling bad.
1:20.6	And the reason, we'll probably unpack this a little bit more later,
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