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How to Change
- The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
- Narrated by: Katy Milkman
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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How to Change is a powerful, groundbreaking blueprint to help you - and anyone you manage, teach or coach - to achieve personal and professional goals, from the master of human nature and behaviour change and Choiceology podcast host Professor Katy Milkman.
Award-winning Wharton professor Katy Milkman has devoted her career to the study of behaviour change. An engineer by training, she approaches all challenges as problems to be solved and, with this mindset, has drilled into the roadblocks that prevent us from achieving our goals and breaking unwanted behaviours. The key to lasting change, she argues, is not to set ever more audacious goals or to foster good habits but to get your strategy right.
In How to Change, Milkman identifies seven human impulses, or 'problems', that commonly sabotage our attempts to make positive personal and professional change. Then, crucially, instead of getting you to do battle with these impulses, she shows you how to harness them and use these as driving forces to help instil new, positive behaviours - better, faster and more efficiently than you could imagine.
Drawing her own original research, countless engaging case studies and practical tools throughout to help you put her ideas into action, Milkman reveals a proven, inspiring path that can take you - once and for all - from where you are today to where you want to be.
Critic Reviews
"Game-changing. Katy Milkman shows in this book that we can all be a super human." (Angela Duckworth, best-selling author of Grit)
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- Jack Heath
- 21-12-2022
Better than most of the genre
Milkman walks several tightropes with ease, providing advice that's neither too general nor too specific, and backing up her findings with science while still leaving plenty of room for interesting human anecdotes. There might be a bit too much focus on gym attendance, and the book doesn't cover the other side of the coin - how even as you're trying to change, bad actors use the same insights from behavioural economics to change YOU. But it's still an engaging and insightful read.
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- Tara
- 19-01-2023
Loved it
I’ve read what feels like every self help book possible and the science & study in the contents of this made me understand so much! Thank you
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- Neha and Darshan Thakkar
- 01-03-2023
Great content, needed a professional narrator.
Katy has some great insights, backed by good stories, research and meticulous work. I applaud her narration efforts but IMHO a professional narrator would've made the content easier to listen to & more memorable !
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- Silviu
- 02-09-2021
A well documented, really interesting book.
I am so happy that after becoming a huge fan of your podcast I was able to also listen to your book which includes many well thought references to your podcast. Exciting to discover new meanings for stories that I knew. Thank for being so genuine about it all
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- Salman
- 10-01-2023
Definitive guide on change
Pragmatic and actionable guide on change. Very well researched and well crafted content. A book to listen to again. Loved the narration as well.
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- Stella Dartnall
- 22-08-2023
technical study data being read out
I thought it would give me steps or theory on how to change and keep change. however it just seamed more like a review of every behavioural study ever done. does not give advice or tell you how to change.
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