Sunday Pick: How to develop the habits you want – and get rid of the ones you don’t
TED Talks Daily
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🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Each Sunday, TED shares an episode of another podcast we think you'll love, handpicked for you… by us. Today we're sharing a special episode of How to Be a Better Human, a podcast hosted by comedian Chris Duffy about the big ideas and small ways we can improve our lives.
We all have habits -- the good and not-so good kind. But can we use them to our advantage? In this week’s episode, Chris is joined by James Clear, entrepreneur and author of #1 New York Times bestseller, “Atomic Habits”, for a conversation about the power of habitual behavior. They discuss the science of habit formation, how to understand the forces that motivate you, and why the sum of many little habits can add up to a better life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Ted Talks Daily listeners, I'm Elise Hugh. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we have an episode of another podcast from the Ted Audio Collective hand-picked by us for you. |
| 0:11.0 | It's easy to want to be a better person, but hard to know where to begin. |
| 0:15.0 | Each week, How to be a Better Human brings you conversations with experts about realistic things you can do to live a happier life. |
| 0:22.0 | This episode features an interview with Jay. you can do to live a happier life. |
| 0:23.0 | This episode features an interview with James Clear, |
| 0:25.8 | the author of Atomic Habits about our good and bad habits |
| 0:30.4 | and how making small habit changes can lead to big life improvements. |
| 0:35.0 | If you want to hear more great insights, you can find them each week on how to be a better human, |
| 0:39.4 | available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:42.6 | And learn more about the Ted Audio Collective at audio collective dot Ted.com. |
| 0:47.6 | Now on to the episode. You're listening to how to be a better human. I'm your host Chris Duffy. |
| 0:59.1 | You know we tend to think a lot about habits at the beginning of the year. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm going to read a book a week or I'm going to work out every day or I'm going to finally get into |
| 1:07.6 | woodworking or whatever. You know what lies you told yourself back in January. |
| 1:11.6 | But then if you're anything like me this time of the year rolls around and I'm looking around and I'm not seeing a big pile of books that I've read and I'm also not seeing literally any handmade furniture. So why is that? Well today's guest wrote the book about it. |
| 1:25.8 | If you were trying to figure out how to change your habits, how to shift your behavior, |
| 1:29.3 | or simply to understand what is going on in your brain when it comes to motivation. |
| 1:34.0 | James Clear is the guy you want to talk to. |
| 1:36.0 | And today we're going to be talking to him all about his book Atomic Habits, |
| 1:40.0 | what he's learned in years of hearing from readers about it and how to change what we do. |
| 1:45.2 | Here's a clip. |
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