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Charles Duhigg shared thisRegister for my FIRST EVER live workshop on how to become a Supercommunicator. This isn't a workshop on listening harder or being nicer. Instead, it's a specific, learnable move to connect with anyone - even the people you disagree with - that you can start using in your very next conversation. Tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's meeting. That call you've been dreading. I'm super excited about this and hope to see you there! Click the link below: https://lnkd.in/e9_qARQy
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Charles Duhigg shared thisMost habit advice is just "want it more." These aren't. Bundle a temptation with the gym so you crave the workout. Launch on a fresh-start date. Journal what you eat and lose twice as much. Stack small wins. Work beside someone. Pick one next action instead of a scary list. And find the keystone habit that pulls the rest with it. Real change is a setup, not a mood. More stories like this in The Science of Better (link in bio).
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Charles Duhigg shared thisFor most of its production, Frozen was falling apart: Elsa was a villain, the story had no heart, and the deadline loomed. Disney's fix wasn't to protect the team. It was to shake it up, bring in fresh voices, and let the tension run. Psychologists have a name for why that works: Creative Desperation. Moderate disturbance keeps a system most alive. In the churn came a single reframe, that Elsa and Anna were sisters, and out of it came Let It Go. A stuck team usually needs friction, not calm. More stories like this in The Science of Better (link in bio).
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Charles Duhigg shared thisFour years before scientists studied her brain, Lisa Allen was obese, in debt, newly divorced, and smoking heavily. At her lowest, in Cairo, she made one decision: quit smoking. To do it she started running, and running slowly reshaped her eating, her sleep, her work. One habit pulled the others with it. She lost the weight, cleared the debt, went back to school, ran a marathon. Researchers call these keystone habits, the single anchor that changes everything downstream. You don't have to fix your whole life at once. Just find the one. More stories like this in The Science of Better (link in bio).
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Charles Duhigg reposted thisCharles Duhigg reposted thisI never knew the Habit Window existed – did you? The term food noise is now a commonly used and appreciated term, and as a registered dietitian I’m so excited and encouraged that we are having these new conversations about weight and weight management due to the rise of GLP-1 use, research and learnings. But what do we DO with this new knowledge and understanding of food noise? How do we make the most of the opportunities it can provide for long term behavior change? Because without long term change there cannot be long term weight loss maintenance. So when I received an email from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, Charles Duhigg (you may be familiar with his book The Power of Habit) about coming onto my Sound Bites® Podcast to discuss the Habit Window I jumped at the opportunity! Charles informed me that new studies show that using a GLP-1 opens a ‘habit window’ because cues like food noise are disrupted just enough to allow new habits to emerge. There’s also evidence that GLP-1s offer an opportunity to form new ‘keystone habits’: when our food behaviors change it can set off a chain reaction that impacts other behaviors like sleep, exercise and even addictions. BUT this is not just another GLP-1 conversation!! The conversation I have with Charles on the podcast provides insights and strategies for ANYONE who wants to change their habits. Because although many people are on GLP-1s, most people are not. I hope you will tune into this episode 316: The Habit Window: How GLP-1 Insights Can Help Anyone Change Behavior. And if you like it, share it with others. And please let me know your thoughts below! https://lnkd.in/gCGAN_hp #habits #behaviorchange #weightloss #podcast
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Charles Duhigg shared thisGoogle studied 180 of its own teams to find the formula for a perfect one, and the obvious answers all failed. Skills, seniority, friendship, none of it predicted performance. What did: how people treated each other. On the best teams everyone spoke in equal measure and everyone felt safe admitting a mistake or an "I don't know." It even explained why top hospital teams reported more errors, not fewer, because safety let the errors surface. The smartest groups aren't the most talented. They're the most honest. More stories like this in The Science of Better (link in bio).
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Charles Duhigg shared thisThe longevity industry sells complexity. The research keeps landing on the simple stuff. A Mediterranean-style diet cuts early-death risk by nearly a quarter. Consistent sleep timing, regular sauna use, strong friendships, a sense of purpose, gratitude, even naps, each tracks with living longer. No stack of supplements required. The science of a longer life is weirdly, almost annoyingly, simple. More stories like this in The Science of Better (link in bio).
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Charles Duhigg shared thisIn the early 1900s hardly any Americans brushed their teeth. Then an adman named Claude Hopkins took on a no-name toothpaste called Pepsodent and turned brushing into a national habit in a decade. His secret wasn't the film he told people to scrub away. It was the citric acid and mint he slipped into the recipe, which left a tingle people started to crave. The habit stuck because it paid out a reward, the real lever behind every habit you keep. More stories like this in The Science of Better (link in bio).
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Charles Duhigg shared thisMost of us assume trust at work is a function of tenure. Sit near someone for three years and eventually you know them. It turns out that is not how it works. In 1997 a psychologist named Arthur Aron brought pairs of strangers into a lab and handed them a list of 36 questions to work through together. Forty-five minutes later, some of them reported feeling closer to the person across the table than to friends they had known for decades. The questions are not the magic. The sequence is. The list opens somewhere safe. What would a perfect day look like. Then it moves into childhood, and gratitude. Then into your most treasured memory, and your most terrible one. By the end you are telling someone what you would regret never having said, and why you have not said it. Every question asks for slightly more risk than the one before it. It is a ladder, and the rungs are evenly spaced. Two rules hold the whole thing together. Take turns, and never ask for more than you are willing to give. The second rule is the one most teams break. A leader asks for candor without offering any of their own, and everyone in the room quietly climbs back down. That is worth sitting with, because mutual vulnerability is what actually moves trust. When you share something real and the other person matches it in real time rather than retreating, your brains begin to synchronize. It is measurable. You do not need all 36 questions, and you do not need a lab. You need to go first, and you need to go one rung at a time. I write more of these in The Science of Better. Link in my profile.
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