BITESIZE | The Surprising Secret to Making New Habits Stick | Professor Michael Norton #566
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Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite-size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 452 of the podcast with Harvard professor and leading behavior scientist. Michael Norton. We can all make short-term changes, but so many of us struggle to make our new desired behaviors last. In this clip, we explore the difference between rituals and routines, and Michael shares why turning our desired habits into rituals can be really helpful in making them stick.
for the long term. If we think about health habits that people are trying to introduce into their lives, let's say exercise, movement, meditation, journaling, you know, whatever it might be, do you think ritual or ritualizing those practices can help people stick with them for longer? You know, it's funny, I was talking to some um elite runners uh the other week and about their rituals. First off, if you ask any elite person who does anything, singer, athlete, whatever, they will almost always have really, really elaborate, fascinating rituals that they do before, during, after their performances.
And one of the things they all talked about was their shoe tying. But they do it almost as a, it's almost like a religious ceremony that they do before they run. And one of the things it does is it makes them feel that they're ready to go. So when you have these kinds of, you know, it's left foot, then tie it twice, then right foot, then very, very funny, what they do with the socks, which socks, all this kind of stuff that really gets into it.
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