Making Your Resolutions Stick with Prof. Katy Milkman

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Imagine setting a New Year’s Resolution — and actually achieving it! Living healthier and losing weight accounts for more than 40% of all New Year’s resolutions. But actually achieving them? That’s a different story. To be sure, “personal fortitude” and “effort” pale in comparison to the role of place and resources when it comes to our health. But for so many of us, even when all the other variables line up, our goals feel a bit too daunting. Abdul reflects on what makes setting big goals so challenging — and why so many of us struggle with our health goals. Then he sits down with Professor Katy Milkman, a behavioral science professor at Penn’s Wharton School, and author of “How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be” to talk about the science of sticking to those New Year’s resolutions.

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0:00.0	America detected is brought to you by the DeBomont Foundation.
0:02.4	For 25 years, the DeBomont Foundation has worked to create practical solutions that improve
0:06.1	the health of communities across the country.
0:08.4	The Foundation advances policy, builds partnerships, and strengthens systems to give everyone
0:12.4	the opportunity to achieve their best possible health.
0:14.8	To learn more, visit DeBomont.org.
0:17.9	Congress passed a major health policy law right before they shut out the lights for the
0:30.3	holidays.
0:31.3	The FDA announces that abortion pills, which were previously limited to specially certified
0:35.0	clinics, can be sold at retail pharmacies, vastly expanding abortion access.
0:39.8	Life expectancy dropped to its lowest level since 1996 in 2021.
0:44.8	It surges in China after the country reverses course on its zero-covid policy.
0:49.0	And here at home, xbb.1.5 is spreading across the U.S.
0:53.3	This is America Dissective.
0:54.3	I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Al-Sahid.
1:06.8	New Year, New Year, right?
1:08.5	The majority of New Year's resolutions have something to do with our health.
1:11.9	And healthy or lose weight or exercise more.
1:15.0	But if you're like me, you're probably already falling off the bandwagon.
1:18.4	You start off strong.
1:19.4	New gym membership or unboxing that exercise bike you got for Christmas.
1:23.0	And then you go back to work.
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