Michael Norton (on rituals)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Michael Norton (The Ritual Effect, Happy Money) is a social psychologist and professor. Michael joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what it was like having his parents own a greeting card store, where his interest in psychology came from, and why he loves to design social experiments. Michael and Dax talk about humble bragging, why people don’t like braggers, and why studying people’s rituals can be an insight into their state of mind. Michael explains why people develop irrational habits to avoid admitting failure, why people need a diversity of emotions, and how couples create custom behaviors to show their affection for each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan rather and I'm joined by the
0:05.8	Minister of Mayhem. That's a new one. Try it on. So you can get into a little trouble.
0:12.2	You know what it sounds? Capital T trouble. It sounds like. on Not really my style. No. And not on topic either for our guests.
0:27.0	Any which way?
0:28.0	Well, that's not true.
0:29.0	Okay, thanks for correcting me.
0:30.0	Because there's a lot of rituals that happen at the Screamo concerts.
0:34.2	True, true, true, true, true.
0:35.3	Everyone screams at the same time, I imagine.
0:37.7	I mean, I've never been to one, but.
0:41.0	Michael Norton is a, well, first, he's our guest today and Michael is a social
0:45.9	psychologist and professor at Harvard Business School. He has a previous book
0:50.7	everyone loved happy money the science of happier spending.
0:54.8	He's also written a lot and we talk about it on Humblebriding, which I think is lovely.
0:59.2	Yeah, it's a fun topic.
1:00.7	But he has a new book out right now called The Ritual Effect, From Habit to Ritual,
1:06.3	harness the surprising power of everyday actions.
1:09.5	And what's really fun about this episode is, I think like like us many people enter it thinking they
1:14.5	don't have any rituals and we all do and we do this is also the answer to an
1:20.4	Easter egg we were talking about on some fact check about
1:24.1	teeth brushing and order of things.
1:26.7	And some people actually in the comments
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