Why Smaller Goals Can Lead to Bigger Changes with Eric Zimmer

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. Behavior change is hard. That's something we talk about a lot on the Happiness Lab.

And I'm pretty sure no one knows this fact about the mind better than today's guest. I had been in detox before. I had been intrigued. before. So there were lots of times that I made an attempt to change and none of them had worked.

This is podcaster and author Eric Simmer. I think for a lot of, if not most, addicts, there will be a story that is similar, which is probably years before. they achieve full sobriety, there's a lot of little attempts at change. There's lots of attempts at moderation, only on the weekends, or I'll drink whiskey, but I won't do heroin, right? And I'd had all those.

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