Stephen Guise on How to Form Elastic Habits
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Guise is an international best-selling author, blogger, and entrepreneur. His books have been translated into 17 languages, including his latest book, Elastic Habits: How to Create Smarter Habits That Adapt to Your Day.
Eric and Stephen discuss his unique approach to creating good habits that are adaptable to your life and unique circumstances.
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Stephen Guise and I Discuss How to Form Elastic Habits and…
- His book, Elastic Habits: How to Create Smarter Habits That Adapt to Your Day
- How bad habits fulfill some needs
- An elastic habit is one that creates flexibility and more points of progress
- How flexibility is strength when it comes to obstacles
- Lateral flexibility is having several different options to achieve the same goal
- Vertical flexibility is having the option to move the intensity of the activity up or down
- The roles of the different levels: mini, plus, and elite
- How to work with feelings and motivation in establishing habits
- How to apply the lateral and vertical flexibility to habits
- Cues or triggers are what prompts you to do the behavior
- The different types of cues or triggers: time. activity, daily, emotional, and window
- Intelligent tracking and why it’s important in establishing new habits
- The process for creating and implementing “elastic” habits
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| 0:00.0 | I've tried habit tracking on my phone and it has not ever worked. |
| 0:04.6 | Maybe I've done like a week or two but it just doesn't work because that's a place of distraction for me. |
| 0:19.1 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:21.2 | Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:25.7 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:31.3 | And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:35.6 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. |
| 0:40.3 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:43.2 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:46.7 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:48.6 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:50.1 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:54.3 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. |
| 0:59.3 | How they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:14.9 | People often ask me what podcasts I listen to and one of the ones that I absolutely love |
| 1:20.4 | is the Bean Well Podcast. The host Rick Hansen is one of the wisest people I know. |
| 1:25.2 | He's been a guest a couple times and he's joined by a son, |
| 1:28.0 | forest, and they are delightful together. |
| 1:31.1 | Each week they explore the practical science of lasting well-being. |
| 1:34.7 | Sometimes they do this with conversations with each other and sometimes they have on world-class |
| 1:39.6 | guests, but it is always insightful. |
| 1:42.1 | And they teach you how to build reliable inner strengths, |
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