How to Build Habits with Charles Duhigg

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We all want to build good habits, but doing so is often easier said than done. Charles Duhigg joins the podcast to help us learn how to do just that. About Our Guest: Charles is the author of The Power of Habit, a classic bestseller about the science of habit formation in our lives, companies and societies, and Smarter Faster Better, which focuses on the science of productivity. He was a reporter at the New York Times for a decade, where he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer prize for explanatory reporting in 2013. If you'd like to hear more from Charles, you can listen to his wonderful podcast How To! with Charles Duhigg. New Sponsor: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Key Topics: 01:19: What got you into the study of habits? 03:30: How can we change our habits? 11:56: Is there a difference between how we change internal habits vs. external ones? 18:40: You've been around a lot of very happy, successful people. You've also been around a lot of very successful people who aren't happy. What are the key differences between the two groups? 25:13: A message to your younger self. From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Hardwire lasting change into your mind and heart in just a few minutes a day with Dr. Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price! Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Connect with the show: Visit us on the web Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and have the absolute pleasure of welcoming Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, many-time
0:14.6	best-selling author, and expert on the science of effective productivity, Charles
0:18.8	Duhig to the show. Charles is the author of The Power of Habit, Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business,
0:24.6	and Smarter, Faster, Better, The Transformative Power of Real Productivity.
0:29.2	He was a reporter at the New York Times for over a decade and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory
0:35.1	reporting in 2013.
0:37.3	He's written for the New York Times magazine The New Yorker and The Atlantic and appeared on
0:41.7	This American Life, NPR, and a host of other shows you've probably heard of.
0:46.3	He's also the host of How-Toe with Charles Doeighth, a wonderful podcast from Slate,
0:50.7	which takes on its listener's toughest problems
0:53.0	and explains how we can do everything
0:54.6	from performing under pressure
0:56.3	to overcoming anxiety.
0:57.9	So Charles, again, thank you so much for taking the time
1:00.4	to do this today.
1:01.2	How are you doing?
1:01.7	Thanks for having me on.
1:02.3	I'm good. Well, great. So we're really
1:04.6	looking forward to this. There are a bunch of other directions that we could go. But I'd like to start with your
1:09.3	experience. You are a reporter for many years. You are extremely successful inside of it. I think it's fair to say
1:16.3	What caused you to take a turn into writing about habits and studying the science of productivity?
1:21.9	Well, as a reporter at the L.A. Times and the New York Times and now at the New Yorker,
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