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Intelligence Squared

BJ Fogg on Redesigning Habits and Human Behaviour

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🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

BJ Fogg is a pioneering research psychologist and founder of the iconic Behavior Design Lab at Stanford which has taught everyone from the founders of Instagram to the leading technology ethicist Tristan Harris. In this episode Fogg speaks to Carl Miller about his new book Tiny Habits, how he cracked the code of habit formation and the potential dangers of unleashing behaviour design on the world. See more about the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Sellers-Books/zgbs/books Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:08.0

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0:10.0

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0:17.0

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0:22.0

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0:25.5

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:30.4

Maybe 30 or 20 years ago, a Saudi might have said, I'm Muslim and I'm Arab and I'm Saudi.

0:37.0

Now they might say, I'm Saudi and I'm Arab and I'm Muslim.

0:40.0

You know, they're trying to radically refashion their country and they need help from the best experts in the world

0:45.2

Do you want to have your country's people be disqualified from that because of some essentially antiquated point of view about how countries work together.

0:53.6

In recent months it can feel like Saudi Arabia is intent on buying the world.

0:57.9

It's bought up much of golf, sports teams, many of the globe's best soccer players to its own domestic league and it owns huge chunks of many of the biggest companies on the planet.

1:07.5

But Saudi Arabia is not just on a shopping spree.

1:10.5

The once insular oil-rich Kingdom is transforming into a major diplomatic and military

1:16.1

player, a pivotal actor in the energy transition and looks set to host high-end cultural events

1:21.7

like the FIFA World Cup.

1:23.0

You know, they know that buying a football club immediately brings you a

1:27.2

billboard into a global game that allows you to completely reposition yourself

1:32.3

or rebrand yourself.

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