Best Reads Roundup: The Best Behavior Change Articles of 2022
My personal favorite tools for: easily scheduling events, overcoming information overload, being consistent with exercise, getting better sleep, staying focused, and fighting distraction.
The Marriage Lesson That I Learned Too Late (The Atlantic)
The things that destroy love and marriage often disguise themselves as unimportant or mundane.
You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (Even When You Don't Think You Are) (Physiqonomics)
"When you’re not paying attention to calorie intake you’ve left yourself open to all the environmental and cognitive factors that have you eating more and more without even realising"
4 Mental Traps That Kill Productivity (NirAndFar)
By identifying and addressing our internal tendencies toward distraction, we can unlock a level of productivity many find difficult to achieve.
The Secret Tool of Elite Athletes for Achieving your Career Goals (Tech Climbs & Adventures)
The difference between those who succeed and those who fail in their goals is the transformation of identity.
How To Declutter Your Closet With a Single Box ? (Apartment Therapy)
The technique is simple, but there's something surprisingly deep in the insight. In what ways might we apply the idea of an "outbox" to our digital lives?
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Overcoming the fear of being unavailable is essential to making timeboxing stick.
Is Your Brain Foggy? Here Are Five Ways to Clear It (Greater Good)
Studies have found isolation, stress, and uncertainty can cause forgetfulness and disorganization. Here's what to do about it.
The Surprising Science of "Manifestation" (NirAndFar)
How much can the popular idea of "manifesting" be made sense of by factors such as a balanced positive outlook, or the power of focused attention?
How to Take Things Less Personally (Psyche)
How to break the self-critical habits of always blaming yourself and assuming others think ill of you.
Happy reading!
- Nir
Nir Eyal is formerly a Lecturer in Marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. His first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products , is an international bestseller and taught companies how to design more engaging products. His second book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life , reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us. Nir blogs at NirAndFar.com
Exec Coach for Mid-Career Crisis | Future of Work Expert | Author | Speaker
1 年I really liked the Surprising Science of Manifestation. I'm a true cynic but could understand the benefit of optimism vs blind optimism and how that could help focus and self-image to achieve a change.
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1 年Great article on taking things less personally: Taking things too personally can lead to inaccurate thinking and negative emotions Personalisation is believing that you are the cause of a negative event without evidence Mind reading is believing that someone is making a critical judgment about you without direct feedback These tendencies can restrict behavioral options and increase the likelihood of distress.
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1 年Love this, very helpful, Nir thanks for sharing
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1 年Love this Nir Eyal , Keep sharing such amazing content. You always come up with something worth it and inspiring.
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1 年Coworking for the win! It was a life changer for me. But I like having a community - comes with lots of bonuses like emotional support, new ideas (especially since they know your business), referrals, newsletter content ideas, etc, etc. Your environment is such a huge influence on behavior, intentionally choosing/crafting one should be behavior change 101!