Charles Duhigg ON: How to Hack Your Brain to Change Any Habit Effortlessly & the Secret to Making Better Decisions

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Jay Shetty sits down with Charles Duhigg to talk about forming habits, how to think more deeply, and our overall well-being. Habits are deeply ingrained in us, we do them unconsciously and automatically. This is why many people find it difficult to drop negative habits and form positive ones. It is difficult and would often require strong willpower and clear motivation. Yes, it’s difficult but never impossible.

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0:00.0	Should I get out of bed? Should I make this decision? Should I eat this thing? Should I exercise?
0:04.9	All those questions become much easier because now our goal is well-being. Getting out of bed?
0:10.4	It's not about whether getting out of bed makes you happy. If you don't get out of bed,
0:14.8	you're not going to have a relationship with your wife. You're not going to earn money. You're not
0:18.1	going to feel safe. Your life doesn't have any meaning. Now suddenly the decision to get out of bed
0:22.7	is much much easier because you're not chasing pleasure. You're chasing well-being.
0:33.2	Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the number one health podcast in the world. Thanks to
0:39.2	each and every single one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and grow.
0:45.2	Now you know that I'm always on the lookout to go and find the incredible thinkers,
0:49.6	thought leaders, authors, writers, storytellers that I believe have inspired my life and can
0:56.4	inspire yours as well. Now the person I'm going to interview today, I actually read his book
1:01.6	back in 2013. So it's been quite a while, but this book had such a lasting impact on me.
1:07.6	And I was just sharing with him that the reason I love On Purpose and our community is I get the
1:12.0	excuse to reach out to some of the people that I admire and I feel inspired by so that I can help
1:17.1	them share their work and their story and their insights that I know will transform your life.
1:23.0	Today's guest is none other than Charles Duhig, journalist and New York Times best-selling author.
1:29.6	He wrote The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, which talk about productivity,
1:35.4	habits and the science behind it. He joined The New York Times as a star writer in 2006
1:41.5	and was part of the team that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for the I
1:48.0	economy, a series that examined the global economy through the lens of Apple. Now today's session
1:54.7	is going to be all about habits, understanding ourselves, improving our productivity and our
1:59.5	effectiveness, welcome to On Purpose, Charles Duhig. Charles, thank you so much for doing this.
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