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

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 31, 20261 hr 8 min

There's a three-part framework for analyzing, breaking, or building any habit. There's also a simple way to identify which ones might be "keystone habits" for you. And the surprising discovery of the GLP1 "habit window" suggests that some people may be benefiting more from the drugs than others. Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and the author of The Power of Habit, which spent over three years on bestseller lists and has been translated into 40 languages; Supercommunicators, also a bestseller published in 2024; and Smarter Faster Better, a third bestseller. Mr. Duhigg writes for The New Yorker...

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Hello everybody welcome to the 10% happier podcast I'm your host Dan Harris we talk a lot on the show about habit formation why because. 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 guest literally wrote the book on habit formation.

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He wrote a massive bestseller called The Power of Habit. He also wrote a book, another bestseller called Super Communicators. We're going to talk today about how to connect

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habit formation to your communication style. Perhaps most fascinatingly, we're going to talk about what GLP ones might be revealing about how and why we change our habit.

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