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In the Habit: Introduction to Changing our Behaviour

By: Ash Ranpura, Alice Fraser
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  • Summary

  • How can we change our behaviours? The first step is understanding our habits. For better or worse, habits are the invisible building blocks of daily life. Research suggests that about 40% of what we do is repeated almost daily and yet most of the time we aren't really aware of what's happening.

    In this series, neuroscientist Ash Ranpura and comedian Alice Fraser deep dive into the science of behaviour change. They want to find out how we can make good habits and how we can break bad ones. Along the way they meet the man who invented the science of habits, talk to a woman trying to change the world through figuring out how to make behaviour change stick and try out some of the latest tricks and techniques designed to help you change your own behaviours.

    This is the one series you should have in your headphones if you want to understand how to make positive changes in your life.

    This is an Audible Original Podcast. You can download all 6 episodes to your Library now.ut 20 minutes.
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Episodes
  • Ep. 1: The Power of Habit

    Ep. 1: The Power of Habit
    Jan 25 2019

    What exactly are habits? Why are they so important? And how long does it take to create them? Ash Ranpura’s wife starts by explaining what she’d like Ash to change about himself. He realises there is a lot he could change – he wants to exercise more, smoke less, drink more water, meditate more, even eat more healthily.

    Alongside him is the comedian Alice Fraser who actually has loads of really good behaviours. She runs, she meditates, she doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink. She explains to Ash a lot of this is because she has developed good habits that are automatic. She talks to the founding father of habit science, Larry Squire, about how his ground-breaking experiments on a patient called Eugene changed how we think about habits and memory.

    Then she talks to Pippa Lally, a habit expert at UCL, about how long it takes to create automatic habits and what this means for behaviour change.
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    21 mins
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  • Ep. 2: The Willpower Muscle

    Ep. 2: The Willpower Muscle
    Jan 25 2019

    How important is willpower? And how can we strengthen our self-control? Ash talks to Martin, a drug addict, now trying to kick a really bad habit. One thing Martin has trouble with is self-control. And it turns out that self-control is key to this whole conversation about behaviour change.

    Ash talks to Terrie Moffit, a professor at Duke University. Terrie explains how her pioneering work on a thousand children in Dunedin, New Zealand, shows how self-control is just as important as intelligence when determining life outcomes. Does this mean we’re all doomed? Not according to John Tierney, the author of Willpower. He says willpower is like a muscle and can be strengthened like a muscle. To explain this he tells the story of the 19th century explorer Henry Stanley. Stanley developed a series of tricks and techniques to help build his willpower in the face of the hardships he found on his travels through Africa. These are the kinds of techniques we can apply to our own lives today.
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    24 mins
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  • Ep. 3: Making New Habits

    Ep. 3: Making New Habits
    Jan 25 2019

    This episode is all about the hacks and tricks you can use to form new habits and behaviours. Ash is ready to try and start a new habit. He decides he wants to exercise every day by bicycling. So Alice sets him up with the behavioural scientist and habit expert Katy Milkman. She’s a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and she’s come up with a specific technique for starting a new habit. It’s called temptation bundling.

    Basically, you have to combine a pleasurable thing like listening to a really suspenseful audiobook with something that requires a bit of willpower like exercise. Katy helps Ash make a plan for his bicycling habit. Ash tries it out at his home in Somerset.
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Wow. so much behind seeing habits

I'm really inspired now to look at my day and how I can include habits I want to have. How to slowly slot them in in my schedule.

also inspired to look at what I have wanted to achieve for a while, like learning my ukulele and how to do it.

This was an amazing, life changing audible.

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informative

informative serie about habit change. hopefully the rest will be published soon, this was only introdtion.

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Great information

Loved the facts and information, I felt there was too much filler with the hosts personally.

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Very mindful and well done

I like how it is easier to understand and apply to my day to day. Also, sharing personal experiences made it real and enjoyable.

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Well worth your time

This podcast is intelligent, informative, humorous, I enjoyed every minute and will revisit many times I suspect

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brilliant!

love it. stimulating informative entertaining listening.
improved my understanding of habit formation.
recommend it highly

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a must watch

loved it. it is so different from all other audible books but worth reading it.

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Thoroughly enjoyable

I highly recommend this humorous and helpful handbook of habit change. Fun to listen to and inspirational as I drive to the daily toil that is work.

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Fun and Educational

Great series!!! Engaging funny and relatable.
Great resources given you just need to listen, and it’s a reality life experience not talking but doing.
Cheers Sonya

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A very enjoyable short life hack series

I loved this short series! The hosts did such a great job and were witty and fun to listen to. The experts were extremely well qualified. I learnt so much while driving around town, listening. I look forward to experiencing more of their projects.

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