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S16 E3: The Enjoyable Path Is Better Than the Effective One (Katy Milkman) May 17, 2023

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How do you make change fun? By bundling an arduous task (exercising) with an enjoyable one (binge-watching lowbrow TV).

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S16 E2: Use Fresh Starts to Kick-Start Change (Katy Milkman) May 16, 2023

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New Year’s. Your birthday. The start of a new season. These are days when the slate is wiped clean. Which makes them perfect for establishing new habits, like going to the gym or writing in your diary. Today, Wharton professor Katy Milkman explains how you can use the “fresh start effect” to make changes big and small.

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S16 E1: To Make a Change, Plan a Tailored Attack (Katy Milkman) May 15, 2023

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How do you get from where you are to where you want to be — from procrastinator to optimizer, couch potato to gym rat, night owl to worm-getting early bird? That's the question Wharton professor Katy Milkman set out to answer in her recent book "How to Change." Actually, she didn't just "set out" to answer it. She did answer it, and she's on the show this week to share science-based strategies you can use to make lasting changes in your life.

S15 E5: You Will Botch It (Matt Croasmun & Ryan McAnnally-Linz) May 12, 2023

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Have you figured out how to live the good life? Don't worry if you're still working on it. It's only been a week. And you haven't even heard the final piece of advice from Matt Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, professors at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and authors of the new book "Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most."

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S15 E4: The Good Life Is Not a Buffet (Matt Croasmun & Ryan McAnnally-Linz) May 11, 2023

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You can’t take bits and pieces of different philosophical traditions and put them together into a roadmap to the good life.

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S15 E3: You Can’t Tackle the Big Question All at Once (Matt Croasmun & Ryan McAnnally-Linz) May 10, 2023

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"What matters most in life?" There's a reason Matt and Ryan, theology professors at Yale and our guests this week, call it the Big Question. It's too big to answer all at once. You have to break it down. Today they're going to teach you how.

S15 E2: Lean Into Disagreement (Matt Croasmun & Ryan McAnnally-Linz) May 09, 2023

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Today, we learn why the deepest question — the one that can truly change our lives, ground us, and give us direction — is not “What do I really want?” It’s “What is really worth wanting?”

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S15 E1: Not Everything You Want Is Worth Wanting (Matt Croasmun & Ryan McAnnally-Linz) May 08, 2023

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This week: Matt Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, professors at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, share key insights from their New York Times bestselling book "Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most."

S14 E5: All Behavior Is Functional (Britt Frank) May 05, 2023

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Even your suboptimal behaviors have a function. Understanding what they are can help you make a change.

S14 E4: There Is No Such Thing as Self-Sabotage (Britt Frank) May 04, 2023

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You say self-sabotage, your brain says self-protection. In today's master class, Britt Frank explains how your brain tries to keep you safe by shooting you in the foot.

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