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🗓️ 7 February 2022
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0:00.0 | Many of us are already planning our New Year's resolutions to work out more in 2023. |
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0:30.0 | I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. |
0:33.2 | In my book Better Than Before, I write about the 21 strategies that we can use to make or break our |
0:38.8 | habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life, and research suggests that about |
0:44.7 | 40% of our existence is shaped by our habits. Sometimes, people are dismayed when I tell them |
0:52.7 | that they can choose from among 21 strategies. They say, 21 is too many. Give me the three that |
0:59.1 | work best. Or just one. Now, in fact, it's helpful that so many strategies exist because |
1:06.0 | some strategies work very well for some people, but not for others, and some strategies are available |
1:11.6 | to us at sometimes in our lives, but not at other times. So when people ask me for the best |
1:17.5 | way to change our habits, I explain that there is no best way because people are different. |
1:23.1 | We all have our own interests, our own temperament, our own values, our own circumstances. |
1:28.4 | So it depends. But often, people dismiss that explanation, and they ask again, |
1:34.0 | okay, sure, but tell me what's the best way? If you had to pick one way, what's the right way to |
1:40.5 | change a habit? For a long time, I was confounded by this response. I had no idea how to make my point |
1:47.4 | clearer that there could be no magic one-size-fits-all solution to changing habits. |
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