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Hidden Brain

Creatures Of Habit

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.640.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

At the beginning of the year, many of us make resolutions for the months to come. We resolve to work out more, procrastinate less, or save more money. Though some people stick with these aspirations, many of us fall short. This week, psychologist Wendy Wood shares what researchers have found about how to build good habits — and break bad ones.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.

0:06.2

Seattle is a city with plenty of well-known tourist attractions.

0:09.6

The space needle, Pike Place Market, the Seattle Art Museum.

0:15.0

Today though, I'm venturing out in the rain to visit a different sort of Seattle attraction.

0:21.0

It's an office building called the Bullet Center.

0:23.0

I'm here to meet Brian Corte, one of the architects.

0:26.0

Hey Brian Shankar, Shankar nice to meet you.

0:28.0

Brian asked to meet you. Thank you for doing this at short notice.

0:31.0

Brian and I are headed to the top floor.

0:33.0

My first instinct is to find the elevator.

0:37.0

But it's nowhere in sight.

0:38.0

Did you forget to put an elevator in the building, Brian?

0:41.0

We do have an elevator through the door to the left.

0:45.0

If you're in a wheelchair or you're not able to climb the stairs,

0:48.0

you just hit the button there with the wheelchair and the door will open.

0:52.0

But we were trying to give people an option to take the stair first.

0:55.0

Those stairs, there are six floors of Douglas Forge steps built on an outer wall of the building.

1:04.0

Each floor has expansive landings that allow people to congregate and chat.

1:09.0

The best views at the Bullet Center are not from the CEO's office.

1:13.0

You get those views when you climb what people here refer to as the irresistible staircase.

1:18.0

So you walk into the stair enclosure, you look up, you see the stair all the way up to the sixth floor of the building.

1:25.0

And that's hopefully going to draw you up the stair.

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