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Name: How to Change
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Author: Katy Milkman

Katy Milkman

The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

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What’s in it for me? Discover how to change your life.

You’re familiar with self-help advice. You know that you should set audacious goals. You know about the importance of habits. Every evening, you write in your bullet journal. And every morning, you make a long to-do list. But, somehow, your goals still elude you.

What are you supposed to do? How are you supposed to achieve your goals – how are you supposed to transform your life – if the tools at your disposal don’t lead to positive change?

These blinks trace our failure to change to a handful of common human flaws, like laziness, impulsivity, and procrastination. They point out how these flaws stop us from achieving our goals and lay out a simple strategy tailored to overcoming each failing.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why New Year’s resolutions aren’t stupid;
how receiving advice can do you harm; and
how one bank boosted customers’ savings by 80 percent.

A fresh start can make it easier to change.

Are you the type of person who makes New Year’s resolutions? Lots of us do.

No matter how heavy the previous night’s celebrations were, January 1 is almost always a hopeful day. There’s something about ringing in a fresh twelve months, and ringing out the old, that makes daunting plans seem feasible and past mistakes seem far away.

But some people are skeptical about New Year’s resolutions. After all, why would a diet succeed in January when it failed in December? Isn’t it silly to think that starting a new year will suddenly make your goals easier to achieve?

Well, there’s an answer to that question.

The key message here is: A fresh start can make it easier to change.

It’s not superstitious to think that it’s easier to pursue our goals in the new year – it’s true. In fact, this rule doesn’t just apply in early January, but after any kind of milestone or fresh start – like a birthday, the start of a new semester, or the Monday of any run-of-the-mill week.

That’s what the author and her colleagues discovered when they looked at data from campus fitness centers. But why? Why do certain dates motivate us so effectively?

In a word, a fresh start changes our perspective. It puts distance between our previous, failed attempts at change and the new one we’re about to make. It wipes the slate clean.

That’s why some dates are more effective than others for motivating change – the bigger the milestone, the more encouraged we feel. But it’s not all good news. A fresh start can certainly trigger change – but not all change is for the better.

Two separate studies that focused on gym-going among undergraduate students noticed that holiday breaks can cause problems. The break certainly provided a fresh start, but the only change it triggered was a disruption in the students’ new, healthy routines.

So what’s the lesson? It’s simple. Watch out for fresh starts like birthdays, new semesters, and anniversaries, and make sure to capitalize on them by undertaking something new – but be careful you don’t backslide on your old, established routines.

Beat your impulsivity using temptation bundling and gamification.

So, you’re trying to change. You’ve waited for a fresh start, and now you’re raring to make some progress – but, somehow, things aren’t working out.

Your heart’s in the right place, but you’re still struggling to devote yourself to your ambitious plans and projects. You find yourself reaching for your phone instead of your textbook, or chocolate instead of some fruit. In short, you’re falling prey to impulsivity.

Use commitment devices to overcome procrastination.

Everybody procrastinates. We put off filing our taxes, going to the gym, and saving for retirement. We know we should probably make a start today – but what’s another hour, another day, another week?

In isolation, not much. But soon the time compounds – and eventually we find ourselves stressed, disappointed, and underprepared yet again.

Good habits can help you defeat laziness.

Laziness is a common vice – so common, in fact, that we load children with proverbs and fables about the dangers of idleness and the value of good old-fashioned hard work.

Take the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper, for example, or the fable of the Little Red Hen – they’re both designed to teach children that hard work pays off, whereas laziness leads to trouble.

To boost your own confidence, give other people advice.

Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, a psychologist and researcher, had noticed something strange: everyone she spoke to was brimming with advice. Whether the topic was losing weight, spending less, or saving more, everyone had tips and opinions on the best way to proceed.

To Eskreis-Winkler, this was a puzzle. Some of the people who were telling her how to spend less had racked up huge debt themselves. Some of the people sharing advice on saving money didn’t even have a dime set aside for a rainy day. But what puzzled Eskreis-Winkler most was that lots of the advice these people were giving was actually good. So why didn’t they just follow it themselves?

Your peers change you – so choose them carefully.

So, your friends can unintentionally hamper your progress if they offer you unsolicited advice. But that doesn’t mean your social circle is always a problem when you’re trying to change. In fact, your friend group can be one of the greatest resources you have – if you know how to make proper use of it.

One of the reasons our peers matter so much is that we humans are naturally susceptible to social pressures. Now, most of the time this is presented as a failing – remember being urged to resist peer pressure as a kid? But that’s only half the story.

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Worum geht es in How to Change?

How to Change (2021) is a simple guide to overcoming the obstacles that prevent you from achieving your goals. It diagnoses our most persistent problems, from laziness to impulsivity, and presents a number of research-backed solutions to each one.

Wer How to Change lesen sollte

Serial procrastinators who can never get things done
Anyone whose bad habits interfere with their aims
People who’ve lost confidence in their ability to change

Über den Autor

Katy Milkman is a researcher in the field of behavioral economics, and she holds a professorship at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. How to Change is her first book.

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