Why Is Change So Hard—And How Can You Make It Stick?

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There's an author called Alan Deutschmann talks about Bad change can be characterized by the three F of using fear, force, or facts. So think about this, how many steps should you be taking a day? Uh ten thousand. How much how many items of fruit and veg? Five.

How much water should you be consuming? I don't know, three f five glasses. Right. Do you do all of that? No. Right. So the facts aren't the problem. It's translating it into action. Telling people to do things, forcing them. doesn't work or the that it's short term compliance. And then frightening people of telling you, you know, if you don't do this, you're gonna die. actually gets short term energy but not long term sustainable change. So

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