How to Start 2021 Off Right, With Charles Duhigg
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
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🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week we're getting advice on how to make our New Year's resolutions stick with help from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg. Listen to hear Charles share multiple science-backed strategies we can use to enhance habit formation, and how mental models can help us achieve our goals.
Charles is the author of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, and Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity, and is also the host of the podcast How To! With Charles Duhigg.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team of LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Alice Bradley, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker. |
| 0:22.6 | And I'm Jordan Calhoun, LifeHackers Deputy Editor. |
| 0:25.6 | And this week, Jordan, we are talking about starting 2021 off-write. |
| 0:31.7 | That's right. We're getting primed to take off in the new year. |
| 0:34.8 | And we're getting help from journalists and habit formation expert, |
| 0:37.9 | Charles Newhigg. The key is, do not write just goals, write plans, and make those plans |
| 0:46.1 | situationally determinant, right, tied to the situation you're in. Charles is a Pulitzer Prize |
| 0:52.2 | winning journalist, an author of The Power of Habit, |
| 0:55.3 | Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, and Smarter, Faster, Better, the Transformative Power of |
| 1:01.9 | Wheel Productivity. Charles is also the host of Slate's podcast, How To, with Charles Duhigg, |
| 1:07.9 | and he's also been a previous guest of the upgrade back in 2017. |
| 1:14.5 | So, Jordan, are you a big New Year's resolution person? |
| 1:16.3 | How do you approach the new year? |
| 1:18.7 | I sort of am. |
| 1:25.1 | So fun fact about me is that my favorite holiday, which is sort of weird, my favorite holiday is New Year's. |
| 1:28.1 | And I'm someone who, even in the before times, |
| 1:32.4 | like I don't go out for New Year's. I'm not a drinker. I don't really drink at all. So I am a fan of New Year's specifically as a benchmark for just introspection and reflection. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm an introvert and I like thinking about the past year and what it was that I was able to do or accomplish and thinking of the next year in terms of what I want to focus on in personal development or in my life. So I don't do New Year's resolutions in terms of I am going to accomplish X, Y, or Z so much. I do some of that for like paying off my student loans |
| 2:01.4 | and things like that. I'll have things that are quantifiable. But generally speaking, my New Year's |
| 2:07.2 | times, I'm thinking of certain trends or habits that I want to get into or certain things in |
| 2:15.1 | my life that I want to focus on. So for example, because that's all pretty abstract. For example, one habit that I have thought about for a while and something that |
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