Adam Grant’s summer reading list includes How to Change as an exciting new book.
May 16, 2021
- LinkedIn
If you want to make sure you continue the activities that have become important to you over the past year—daily walks, regular family meals, a new hobby—you need to plan deliberately. Start by deciding what pastimes you want to hang onto. Then be specific about how you’ll fit them into your life going forward. You can do this with cue-based planning, says Katy Milkman.
May 15, 2021
- The Wall Street Journal
Colleagues over at Well are embarking on a project designed to help you get your mojo back. The project is an opportunity for a “fresh start,” an idea based on research from Katy Milkman, a professor at the Wharton School and author of the new book How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.
May 14, 2021
- Coronavirus Briefing, The New York Times
Katy Milkman is interested not in changing who you are, but “where you want to be.” She wants to help you get more exercise or spend less time arguing on Facebook and more time reading, say, the Financial Times.
May 14, 2021
- Undercover Economist, Financial Times
Katy Milkman, co-founder and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, has spent much of her career researching how people can make better decisions. One of the biggest mistakes people make when attempting to change their lives is trying to find one “magic” solution. Instead, people should be taking a more strategic approach based on the barriers they face. “In order to achieve change, it really depends what’s standing in your way,” she says.
May 14, 2021
- CNBC Make It
The new book How to Change by Katy Milkman is well suited to our moment. Its premise is that research provides techniques for making the changes that we want in our lives and our work—from losing weight to combating procrastination.
May 14, 2021
- Reset Work
“The challenge is if it’s not coordinated, then you have this thing where it’s better off individually doing the thing that’s not as good for us as a group,” Katy Milkman, a behavioral scientist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and author of How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, told Mashable. “And the only way it really works is if the group coordinates and the way groups coordinate is through regulation and recommendations that come from a larger governing body.”
May 13, 2021
- Mashable
Studies show that moments of disruption offer a unique opportunity to set and achieve new goals.
May 11, 2021
- The New York Times
None of the strategies offered by the research in behavioral science will get us there alone. But taken together, they could help reach millions of people in the movable middle who have yet to be vaccinated. “I think we could get most of the way to herd immunity,” said Katy Milkman.
May 11, 2021
- Business Insider
In How to Change, Wharton professor Katy Milkman delves into the science that can help us make changes stick.
May 10, 2021
- strategy+business
How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be is selected as a top title.
May 10, 2021
- Financial Times
Linking something that you enjoy with pursuing a valuable goal that might be a bit of a drag but is a powerful tool to achieve more.
May 9, 2021
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
The internal obstacles that commonly prevent change—the tendency to give into temptation, to be lazy, to be forgetful, to experience self-doubt, and so on—are surmountable. But just as different maladies respond to different treatments, so too do different barriers to change. We can’t just throw any solution at them and expect great results. We need the right one.
May 6, 2021
- TIME
Gretchen Rubin talks to Katy about happiness, habits, and human nature.
May 6, 2021
- Gretchen Rubin’s Blog
The most effective habits create stability but avoid rigidity.
May 6, 2021
- strategy+business
We have a tendency to think other people know the same things we do, which means we often miss out on a great strategy for behavior change.
May 5, 2021
- Behavioral Scientist
Science-based advice on how to become a better you as we enter a post-pandemic world.
May 5, 2021
- AARP
When tech companies first adopted the technique, there was hardly any science supporting it. Now researchers know when gamelike features help—and when they hurt.
May 4, 2021
- WIRED
In her new book, How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, Katy Milkman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, talks about strategies for overcoming obstacles. Here are edited excerpts from a conversation about how workers and bosses can adopt better habits as they return to the office.
May 4, 2021
- Bloomberg Businessweek
If you’ve tried—and failed—to make positive changes in your life, and wonder if the new science of behavior can help, this book is for you. You’ll feel like you’re friends with a world-class scientist who is walking by your side, helping you understand yourself better, and helping you, too, become a super human.
April 28, 2021
- Self-Control Playbook, Character Lab