Habits and making them stick

All In The Mind

ABC Australia

Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Science

4.5 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Habits are notoriously hard to change—exercising more often, practising calmness, getting healthy—it all takes time and effort. So perhaps you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a way to get habits into your routine. We talk with Bernard Balleine, Director of the Decision Neuroscience Lab at UNSW; and with B J Fogg, founder of the Behaviour Design Lab at Stanford University about his new book Tiny Habits.

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0:00.0	This is an ABC podcast.
0:05.6	Hey, just letting you know this week's episode is one from our archives.
0:10.0	It was one of our most popular shows last year.
0:12.6	So if you want to know how to make a habit stick, this episode is for you.
0:26.7	When was the last time you successfully made, changed or broke a habit?
0:30.8	I mean, I feel like I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to my habits.
0:36.0	I have tried many different ways to stop chewing gum, and I just, I can't do it.
0:36.4	I love it.
0:39.3	So I don't drink like regular coffee anymore.
0:41.2	Like I'll have a decaf.
0:45.2	I'm always trying to take up meditation daily.
0:46.9	I've never been able to make that happen.
0:49.1	I would really like to take up an instrument.
0:51.6	How much headway have you made on that habit?
0:52.8	Literally none.
1:00.0	I feel like I'm a person who spends my whole life trying to make and change my habits.
1:02.5	It's just like, oh my God, here we go again.
1:06.9	Habits are notoriously hard to change. Who among us hasn't failed at one resolution or another?
1:11.6	Going to the gym more often, meditating daily, eating healthier.
1:15.6	These all take time, effort and motivation.
1:19.6	But there's more to the story for why habits are so hard to change.
1:25.6	Hi, I'm Sana Khadar and you're listening to All in the Mind.
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