Warning: May Be Habit Forming
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Title promises habit advice and delivers numbers tools and outcomes: cites 8% follow-through for New Year’s resolutions, uses Vitamix + 30-day smoothie challenge to create a keystone habit, builds a tiny-goal system, buys a home elliptical to remove friction and hits a 73-day streak of 30-minute cardio, loses about 50 pounds, completes a 5K in 28:40 and a 10K in 57:02. The talk shows concrete experiments, recipes, schedules, and systems that actually work.
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chapters (40)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:27Statistics
- 1:19Odds
- 1:39Disclaimer
- 2:39Asthma
- 5:14Safety Calls
- 6:39Motivation Trap
- 7:25Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 7:45Radishes
- 9:13Problem Solving
- 9:59Persistence
- 11:30Energy Motivation
- 12:05Learning to Surf
- 13:07Look Yourself in the Mirror
- 14:56Make a Plan
- 15:18My Journey to Better Health
- 16:02Christmas 2015
- 16:35Simple Green Smoothies
- 17:29How did it stick
- 17:49Tiny Habits
- 18:43Green Smoothie
- 19:41The Secret Weapon
- 19:56The Power of Habit
- 20:10The Human Brain
- 21:15The Maze Experiment
- 22:45Behavior chunking
- 23:00Brushing teeth
- 23:30The habit loop
- 25:12Smoothie challenge
- 25:55Build a habit
- 26:33Keystone habits
- 29:18My elliptical habits failed
- 29:53Habits are simple systems
- 30:04Sam Carpenter
- 30:17The Systems Mindset
- 31:11Blameless Postmortem
- 32:29Failed Elliptical Habit
- 34:44Seinfeld Calendar
- 35:53Running
- 38:50Goals
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