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  • The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
  • By: Katy Milkman
  • Narrated by: Katy Milkman
  • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (121 ratings)
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Summary

Brought to you by Penguin. 

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. 

©2021 Katy Milkman (P)2021 Penguin Audio

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"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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This is a book that is unbelievably well written - it is clear precise and no unnecessary anecdotes or excessively complicated words - it is a truly wholesome book which guides you through everything one needs to know - Im confident no other secular book does better in this regard and I've read quite a few

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Really excellent

Really well researched, beautifully narrated, clearly worked hard on this and passionate about the subject.

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love the real example and easy to implement tips

love the real example and easy to implement tips. it made me think how small changes can generate a big impact in anyone

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It might be just me..

Just started to listen to this book as it sounds interesting but I’m struggling with the authors voice, I know I probably shouldn’t say this but it grates on my eyeballs. The top end nasal nature has me wincing with every sentence, hopefully it’ll fade into the background as I get used to it and it might be like when I hear something like a ticking clock at night, I fixate on it until I have to get up and turn it off.. as I said, it could be my problem but it has stopped me from listening to the pod cast as well..
Please ask James earl Jones to do the next one..
Update, no couldn’t hack it.. had to stop listening.

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Nothing very new here

The normal self help advice, backed up with interesting research, but nothing much beyond habit formation.

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  • 02-08-22

Longer than necessary

I wanted to like this book. Unfortunately it meanders from anecdote to anecdote without saying much. Way too many unnecessary backstories and fluff makes for a complete waste of time. The author also reviews too many studies in an effort to make rather simplistic and underwhelming points about human behavior. Not for me, and I bet you won’t learn much from this either.

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  • 06-04-22

loads of waffle and wordy filler

I dont know if there is any gold here or not.

It took 30 mins to hear that andre aggasi had a breakthru by changing his strategy, the next insight of 'change is easier when you are in a new chapter of your life' was interesting but I couldnt take the repeated and very long way around explaining this singular concept.

Extreme detail, loads of words and anecdotes. I've listened to more than 30 audiobooks, i had to stop listening to this one as way too much filler.

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Backed up by research, presented effectively

Loved this book so much. The summary after each chapter highlighting the various techniques is so useful. You buy into it so much more knowing the route to the habit change discoveries too-studies etc. Also, really well read. Highly recommend.

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Katy has a lovely voice + the content is brilliant

The best book on Change and forming new habits that I've read / listened to. Katy is very knowledgeable, smart and explains in a very easy to understand way.

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I feel like I've been listening to a robot.

Hated this book. Wasn't particularly instructive, just very scientific. Disappointing. Felt like time wasted listening to this.

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