The Science Of Motivation: How To Make Habits That Actually Stick | T. Morgan Dixon and Dr. Gary Bennett

This is the 10% happier podcast of Dan Harris. Hello, my fellow suffering beings, how we doing? Today we are coming back to what is for many of us A diabolically difficult challenge. How to overcome inertia and create habits that actually stick.

In other words, how to get motivated. The good news is this is something that has been studied quite extensively, and we've got a world-leading expert today on the science of motivation, alongside a world-changing innovator who's helped come up with a plan, a program that has gotten hundreds of thousands of people off the couch and on their feet. So we've got two guests today who are really just made in a lab to help you get your shit together and get motivated. We talk about the approaches that research suggests actually work in this regard.

These include starting small, having social support, finding your why, and tracking slash celebrating your progress. Although Big asterisk here. You want to do all of this without getting too obsessive, and my guests have some really good thoughts about how to manage that. Said guests are Dr.

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