New Beginnings

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🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Do you want a fresh start to your work life? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Wendy Wood, a social psychologist at USC Marshall School of Business. They talk through what to do when you’re bored to tears in your current job, you’re being recruited by an exciting company right after a disappointing promotion, or you feel stymied in a role you thought was going to be great.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research,
0:22.5	talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.8	Today we're discussing new beginnings with Wendy Wood. She's a professor at the Marshall School
0:37.4	of Business at the Marshall School of Business
0:37.8	at the University of Southern California. And her new book is Good Habits, Bad Habits, the
0:43.1	science of making positive changes that stick. Wendy, thanks for coming on the show.
0:47.2	Oh, I'm thrilled to be here. So we're talking just a few days after the new year, and this is a time
0:53.5	when many people are making changes,
0:56.3	reflecting, trying to alter their habits. How effective are these calendar tools to help drive change?
1:03.8	Well, they motivate us to change, but I think we probably all know change is never easy. Do you find that people often
1:15.8	target drastic change in their jobs? Well, people are asking themselves how happy they are,
1:22.8	whether this is a time to change. Yes, that definitely involves our jobs. Do you find that people are too
1:31.1	slow to do it normally or they jump too quickly? I think that people are slow to make change.
1:39.8	Even if things are not going ideally, we still know what's happening.
1:48.0	We have habits that we're reasonably comfortable with.
1:51.7	And we tend to value what we have more than what we could have in the future.
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