You Don’t Need More Willpower: Change Is a Skill You Can Learn | Eric on The Happiness Lab with Laurie Santos

This week you're getting me as the guest. Lori Santos interviewed me for The Happiness Lab, which is one of the best podcasts out there, and the conversation was good enough that I thought it belonged in this feed. We start with a trombone. If I handed you one and you played it badly, we wouldn't decide you're a bad person. We just conclude you don't know how to play the trombone. When we fail to change, we skip that logic.

and go straight to something being wrong with us. Most of the hours about what to do instead. Start smaller than feels reasonable, protect momentum, and figure out what's worth wanting. I think this is a really great conversation and I'm excited to present it to you on the one you feed. 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 mine better than today's guest. I had been in detox before, I had been in treatment before, so there were lots of times that I made an attempt. To change. And None of them had work.

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