The Science of Habit Change, Why GLP-1s are Disrupting It, and How To Use It To Have Better Conversations | Charles Duhigg

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. We talk a lot on the show about habit formation. Why? Because uh this process bedevils so many of us. We know we should do things like meditate or exercise or get more sleep and yet Somehow, inexplicably, we don't do those things. And that is why habit formation is such a key topic and why we come back to it so often. Today, my guests literally Wrote the book.

on habit formation. He wrote a massive bestseller called The Power of Habit. Um he also wrote a book, uh another bestseller called Super Communicators, and we're gonna talk today about how to connect uh habit formation uh to your communication style And perhaps most fascinatingly, we're gonna talk about what GLP ones might be revealing about uh how and why uh we change our habits. So a lot here to discuss with my guest, Charles Dohig. Charles, welcome back. to the show. Thanks for having me. This it's always such a treat to get a chance to spend some time with you.

Alright, before we get to all the stuff about GLP Ones, which I am really curious about. Let's just talk about the basics of habit formation and how to make good habits and Break. bad ones. Before we get super practical, which we will, uh just to put this in perspective, I saw a statistic while researching this, and you'll tell me if it's correct. That forty percent of daily human actions are habits rather than conscious decisions. Is that true?

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