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Pursuing Health

Tiny Habits to Create Behavior Change with BJ Fogg, PhD and Stephanie Weldy, MEd PH260

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Fogg is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “Tiny Habits” and the director of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University. He has spent over 20 years researching and teaching insights about human behavior with a special focus on health and productivity. Dr. Fogg and his colleague, Stephanie Weldy, M.Ed., recently joined me for a live Q&A-style webinar hosted by CrossFit Health which I’m sharing here. We had a great conversation focused on why celebrating small habits is the key to creating huge transformations.

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0:00.0

In this model, you have the abstract thing here, either the outcome or the aspiration,

0:05.5

and then you come up with a whole host of behaviors that could lead to that,

0:10.0

and you don't have to do all of them. You do the ones that you want to do the most,

0:14.4

the ones that you're capable of doing, and then also the ones that will have the biggest impact.

0:20.4

And so this is part of the system that I call behavior design.

0:24.8

Now, for any outcome or aspiration that you have, there's a systematic way,

0:30.3

step by step, to figure out what is the best behavior habit or set of habits,

0:35.6

and then you use this, once you know what the behaviors or habits are, then you use this to make

0:40.6

them practical, to design them into your life. So you don't guess at behaviors. There's a systematic

0:47.6

way to figure out the best ones, and I call those golden behaviors or golden habits. Those are

0:52.8

the best matches for you. Hello, and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Pouche,

1:02.5

family physician and former CrossFit Games athlete. Here, I bring you information and inspiration

1:08.0

to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine, and support your journey toward your health

1:12.3

yourself. This episode is a replay of a monthly webinar I hosted on behalf of CrossFit Health

1:17.8

with Dr. BJ Fogg and Stephanie Weldy on Tiny Habits. Now, before we dive into the episode,

1:23.2

I do want to make it clear that this podcast is for general information only,

1:27.2

it does not provide medical advice. I recommend that you seek assistance from your personal

1:31.6

physician for any health conditions or concerns. So with that, let's get to the episode.

1:36.4

Welcome again to our CrossFit Health March webinar. I am so excited to be joined today by Dr.

1:48.3

BJ Fogg and Stephanie Weldy, and we are going to be talking about Tiny Habits. So I'll start with

1:56.0

an intro. I'll just give you some background on both BJ and Stephanie. Then I'll ask them some

2:01.6

questions for about 30 minutes or so, and the last half of the webinar will be taking all of your

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