EP01 – Achieve your goals through habits with Lucas Miller
EP. 1
How to make habits stick
with Cognitive Scientist Lucas Miller
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
EP01 – Achieve your goals through habits with Lucas Miller
EP. 1
How to make habits stick
with Cognitive Scientist Lucas Miller
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Over the past 10 years the field of neuroscience has exploded into the mainstream. Advances in technology are allowing us – or more accurately, really cool scientists – to see inside our live, active brains and apply the data to real life. From understanding afflictions such as depression and anxiety to how to build the mental muscles of focus, determination and grit science give us objective insight into how to behave more aligned to our ideals and goals.
In this episode, we’re joined by one of those really cool, very smart and uber practical scientists. Lucas Miller graduated top of his class at UC Berkeley and shares with us tonnes of immediately usable facts about habits and how to become more of the person you want to become.
“If you don’t change your environment, it’s hard to change yourself”
“Who you are determines what you do.”
Lucas is a Cognitive Scientist from University of California at Berkley, author of Beyond Brilliance: The Blueprint for Learning Anything – a book about the science of learning and behaviour change, and lecturer at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he teaches executive how to improve their work habits and be more effective.
What we cover in this episode:
- 4 reasons why people fail at making changes
- The first question you need to ask yourself before making big changes
- Why having a candid conversation with yourself is essential
- The difference between self-control and willpower
- Why you need to make explicit the knowledge you have and poke holes in your logic
- Does “faking it til you make it” really work?
- How you break old habits and create new habits
- The power of “keystone habits” for creating a compound effect
- The MOST important habit is knowing how to make habits work
- How to make behaviour change easier
- The greatest myth and key truth to behaviour change
“To break old habits you need enough pain, a strong why and up level your identity.”
Connect with Lucas:
- Contact Lucas at lucas.miller@berkeley.edu or @lucasalanmiller on Twitter
Over the past 10 years the field of neuroscience has exploded into the mainstream. Advances in technology are allowing us – or more accurately, really cool scientists – to see inside our live, active brains and apply the data to real life. From understanding afflictions such as depression and anxiety to how to build the mental muscles of focus, determination and grit science give us objective insight into how to behave more aligned to our ideals and goals.
In this episode, we’re joined by one of those really cool, very smart and uber practical scientists. Lucas Miller graduated top of his class at UC Berkeley and shares with us tonnes of immediately usable facts about habits and how to become more of the person you want to become.
“If you don’t change your environment, it’s hard to change yourself”
“Who you are determines what you do.”
Lucas is a Cognitive Scientist from University of California at Berkley, author of Beyond Brilliance: The Blueprint for Learning Anything – a book about the science of learning and behaviour change, and lecturer at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he teaches executive how to improve their work habits and be more effective.
What we cover in this episode:
- 4 reasons why people fail at making changes
- The first question you need to ask yourself before making big changes
- Why having a candid conversation with yourself is essential
- The difference between self-control and willpower
- Why you need to make explicit the knowledge you have and poke holes in your logic
- Does “faking it til you make it” really work?
- How you break old habits and create new habits
- The power of “keystone habits” for creating a compound effect
- The MOST important habit is knowing how to make habits work
- How to make behaviour change easier
- The greatest myth and key truth to behaviour change
“To break old habits you need enough pain, a strong why and up level your identity.”
Connect with Lucas:
- Contact Lucas at lucas.miller@berkeley.edu or @lucasalanmiller on Twitter