Katy Milkman | How to Change
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Ever want to change something that really matters to you, but struggle to make it stick, let alone wonder how to ever get started? You’re not alone. There is so much misinformation in the world of behavior change, which is why I wanted to sit down with Katy Milkman to see if we could all get closer to the truth. And, find out, once and for all, what really works, and what’s just distraction.
Katy is an award-winning behavioral scientist and a professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She hosts Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and is the co-founder and co-director of The Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change whose work is being chronicled by Freakonomics Radio. She has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change, including Google, the U.S. Department of Defense, the American Red Cross, 24 Hour Fitness, Walmart and Morningstar. Her research is regularly featured in major media outlets such as The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR. She is the bestselling author of How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.
You can find Katy at: Website | Choiceology podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Here's my question. |
| 0:06.8 | Ever want to change something that really, really mattered to you, but struggle to make |
| 0:11.2 | it happen, let alone wonder how to even get started, so you're not alone. |
| 0:15.7 | There's so much misinformation in the world of behavior change, which is why I wanted |
| 0:20.7 | to sit down with Katie Melvin to see if we could get a little bit closer to the truth |
| 0:25.2 | and find out once and for all what really works and what is just a distraction. |
| 0:30.2 | So Katie is an award-winning behavioral scientist and professor at the Wharton School of the |
| 0:34.6 | University of Pennsylvania. |
| 0:36.7 | She hosts Charles Schwab's popular behavioral economics podcast, Choisology, and is the |
| 0:42.4 | co-founder and co-director of the Behavioral Change for Good Initiative, which is a research |
| 0:47.8 | center with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change whose work is |
| 0:52.6 | being chronical by Freakonomics Radio. |
| 0:55.2 | She has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change |
| 1:00.1 | from Google to the US Department of Defense, the American Red Cross 24 hour fitness wall |
| 1:05.2 | mart Morningstar and tons of others. |
| 1:07.3 | Her research is regularly featured in major media outlets like The New York Times, Wall |
| 1:11.7 | Street Journal, and PR, and she is the best selling author of How to Change, the science |
| 1:17.0 | of getting from where you are to where you want to be. |
| 1:20.8 | So before we dive in a quick note, if you're in a place of thinking seriously about changing |
| 1:27.0 | the way you work and wondering whether it's giving you a sense of purpose and meaning, |
| 1:31.2 | joy, you are not alone. |
| 1:33.5 | Millions of people are stepping into that process of kind of a profound reimagining and |
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