Katy Milkman on How to Change

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Behavioral scientist Katy Milkman of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania talks about her book How to Change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. What can we learn from research in psychology and behavioral economics about breaking the habits we want to change? Is that research reliable? And should Russ Roberts accept being overweight or keep working at finding the thinner man trying to get out?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you could subscribe, comment on this episode and find links and
0:18.6	other information related to today's conversation.
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0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.2	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.1	Today is April 16, 2021 and my guest is behavioral scientist and author Katie Melkman.
0:43.6	She is the James G. Dining Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
0:47.9	and the author of How to Change.
0:50.7	The science of getting from where you are to where you want to be, which is our topic
0:54.5	for today.
0:55.5	Hey, welcome to econtalk.
0:57.5	Thank you so much for having me.
0:58.5	I'm excited to be here.
0:59.8	So these kind of books, I have to confess, listeners, I'm a little bit skeptical of some of
1:05.0	them and some of the findings of them, but I have to also confess that they're very seductive.
1:09.7	You know, you open a book like this and you think, I'm going to change my life.
1:13.0	I really am.
1:14.0	That's going to tell me how to do it.
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