What Most People Miss When Building Habits (w/ Jen Sincero)
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Author Jen Sincero explains how changing your thoughts, beliefs, and words can help you stick to your goals and successfully form new habits. Plus, learn how ancient Puebloans survived in the desert badlands of New Mexico with help from secret underground ice reserves.
How did ancestral Puebloans survive in the 'Badlands?' They had a secret ice reserve by Grant Currin
- Geoscientists discover Ancestral Puebloans survived from ice melt in New Mexico lava tubes. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uosf-gda111720.php
- Onac, B. P., Baumann, S. M., Parmenter, D. S., Weaver, E., & Sava, T. B. (2020). Late Holocene droughts and cave ice harvesting by Ancestral Puebloans. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76988-1
Additional resources from author Jen Sincero
- Pick up "Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick" from Amazon: https://amzn.to/37l87kN
- Website: https://www.jensincero.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/jensincero
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jensincero/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheJenSincero
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily. |
| 0:05.0 | From Curiosity.com, I'm CodyGaw. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you'll hear some great tips for sticking to your goals more successfully, |
| 0:12.0 | with help from author Jen Cincero. |
| 0:15.0 | But first, you'll learn about how an ancient society |
| 0:17.6 | survived in the desert badlands of New Mexico, |
| 0:20.8 | with help from secret underground ice reserves. |
| 0:24.0 | Ooh, let's secretly satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:27.0 | New Mexico is a pretty beautiful place. |
| 0:30.0 | I've been, it really is. |
| 0:31.0 | Especially these days, it's beautiful since, you know, we have air conditioning and technology |
| 0:36.8 | to supply the place with fresh water. |
| 0:39.8 | And yet, people have been living there for more than 10,000 years. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, researchers working in the state's arid badlands have stumbled upon new evidence of at least one ingenious way that some ancient people were able to live there comfortably, a secret |
| 0:55.8 | water supply. |
| 0:57.7 | They have found the first evidence that ancestral Puebloans harvested water from ice deposits located in lava tubes beneath their feet. |
| 1:05.8 | The way they found that evidence is also pretty cool. |
| 1:08.9 | Now the field work took place in El Malpayese National Monument in Western New Mexico. |
| 1:15.8 | It's easy to see why that's called the Bad Lands. |
| 1:18.9 | It is a barren expanse of jagged, hardened lava with little of vegetation and plenty of travel hazards. |
| 1:27.2 | To the naive eye, it doesn't look like an easy place to live, but for indigenous societies, the bad lands weren't bad at all. |
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