## Highlights - Speaker 0: regularly if they can only listen to tempting audio novels of the gym. For instance, a study by some colleagues showed that students actually did better and persisted longer on doing math problems in school when given the tools to temptation, bundle it with tasty snacks, enjoyable music and sort of colorful markers. This was, this was kids doing this even though their teachers thought that would be distracting, it actually led them to persist longer. So there's lots of different ways that we can temptation bundle effectively. Speaker 1: Okay, so tip number one, if you find your goal, if your goal is to exercise more. First one is to see if you can find exercise that you actually enjoy, right? That's Speaker 0: exactly, that's the first true of any goals. See if you can find a path to it that will be fun, whether it's by making it social or, you know, just picking a different activity. Speaker 1: That's exactly [(Time 0:21:13)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d05e014fb9b95ad203c27d) - notes:: Temptation bundling, only let yourself have the reward during times or activities that require effort or discipline like reading or podcast or tv while exercising - Speaker 0: good about themselves. Hey, oh somebody thinks I know what I'm doing, it's a confidence boost that I have something worthwhile to say on this topic. It also leads them to introspect and dredge up insights. You know, you don't ask someone for advice on how to do calculus, who doesn't know how to do calculus, but Lauren found in interviews that most people actually do know how to achieve their goals. If you ask them to think about it, most of them have a few tips or tricks that they can come up with related to goal achievement and they'll be personalized, right? So when you are thinking about what might work for someone else, you think about things that would work for you and then once you advise someone else It feels hypocritical not to follow that advice. Right? So all of those things make this advice giving effect really potent. And we've shown in one random assignment study with nearly 2000 high school [(Time 0:36:10)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d062484fb9b95ad204525c) - notes:: Asking people for advise instead of giving it ties their given advice to them making it more likely that they’ll commit to it.also makes me think “ask others how they are they might solve their problem, it gets them thinking about solutions and because it’s coming from them it’s likely to stick” --- tags: 📥️/🎧️/🟥️ publish: true aliases: - The Best Tools for Personal Change cover: '' general_subject: specific_subject: source: airr isbn: doi: url: 'https://www.airr.io/episode/609025f725959b554fcf23f2' author: "[[@The Art of Manliness]]" guest: publish_date: reviewed_date: ---  ## Highlights - Speaker 0: regularly if they can only listen to tempting audio novels of the gym. For instance, a study by some colleagues showed that students actually did better and persisted longer on doing math problems in school when given the tools to temptation, bundle it with tasty snacks, enjoyable music and sort of colorful markers. This was, this was kids doing this even though their teachers thought that would be distracting, it actually led them to persist longer. So there's lots of different ways that we can temptation bundle effectively. Speaker 1: Okay, so tip number one, if you find your goal, if your goal is to exercise more. First one is to see if you can find exercise that you actually enjoy, right? That's Speaker 0: exactly, that's the first true of any goals. See if you can find a path to it that will be fun, whether it's by making it social or, you know, just picking a different activity. Speaker 1: That's exactly [(Time 0:21:13)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d05e014fb9b95ad203c27d) - notes:: Temptation bundling, only let yourself have the reward during times or activities that require effort or discipline like reading or podcast or tv while exercising - Speaker 0: good about themselves. Hey, oh somebody thinks I know what I'm doing, it's a confidence boost that I have something worthwhile to say on this topic. It also leads them to introspect and dredge up insights. You know, you don't ask someone for advice on how to do calculus, who doesn't know how to do calculus, but Lauren found in interviews that most people actually do know how to achieve their goals. If you ask them to think about it, most of them have a few tips or tricks that they can come up with related to goal achievement and they'll be personalized, right? So when you are thinking about what might work for someone else, you think about things that would work for you and then once you advise someone else It feels hypocritical not to follow that advice. Right? So all of those things make this advice giving effect really potent. And we've shown in one random assignment study with nearly 2000 high school [(Time 0:36:10)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d062484fb9b95ad204525c) - notes:: Asking people for advise instead of giving it ties their given advice to them making it more likely that they’ll commit to it.also makes me think “ask others how they are they might solve their problem, it gets them thinking about solutions and because it’s coming from them it’s likely to stick” --- tags: 📥️/🎧️/🟥️ publish: true aliases: - The Best Tools for Personal Change cover: '' general_subject: specific_subject: source: airr isbn: doi: url: 'https://www.airr.io/episode/609025f725959b554fcf23f2' author: "[[@The Art of Manliness]]" guest: publish_date: reviewed_date: ---  ## Highlights - Speaker 0: regularly if they can only listen to tempting audio novels of the gym. For instance, a study by some colleagues showed that students actually did better and persisted longer on doing math problems in school when given the tools to temptation, bundle it with tasty snacks, enjoyable music and sort of colorful markers. This was, this was kids doing this even though their teachers thought that would be distracting, it actually led them to persist longer. So there's lots of different ways that we can temptation bundle effectively. Speaker 1: Okay, so tip number one, if you find your goal, if your goal is to exercise more. First one is to see if you can find exercise that you actually enjoy, right? That's Speaker 0: exactly, that's the first true of any goals. See if you can find a path to it that will be fun, whether it's by making it social or, you know, just picking a different activity. Speaker 1: That's exactly [(Time 0:21:13)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d05e014fb9b95ad203c27d) - notes:: Temptation bundling, only let yourself have the reward during times or activities that require effort or discipline like reading or podcast or tv while exercising - Speaker 0: good about themselves. Hey, oh somebody thinks I know what I'm doing, it's a confidence boost that I have something worthwhile to say on this topic. It also leads them to introspect and dredge up insights. You know, you don't ask someone for advice on how to do calculus, who doesn't know how to do calculus, but Lauren found in interviews that most people actually do know how to achieve their goals. If you ask them to think about it, most of them have a few tips or tricks that they can come up with related to goal achievement and they'll be personalized, right? So when you are thinking about what might work for someone else, you think about things that would work for you and then once you advise someone else It feels hypocritical not to follow that advice. Right? So all of those things make this advice giving effect really potent. And we've shown in one random assignment study with nearly 2000 high school [(Time 0:36:10)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d062484fb9b95ad204525c) - notes:: Asking people for advise instead of giving it ties their given advice to them making it more likely that they’ll commit to it.also makes me think “ask others how they are they might solve their problem, it gets them thinking about solutions and because it’s coming from them it’s likely to stick”