Table of ContentsView AllTable of ContentsMeet Katy MilkmanWhy Katy Milkman Is Mentally StrongWhat You’ll Hear on the ShowWhat You’ll Learn About Mental Health and Mental StrengthQuotes From KatyMore About the Podcast

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Meet Katy Milkman

Why Katy Milkman Is Mentally Strong

What You’ll Hear on the Show

What You’ll Learn About Mental Health and Mental Strength

Quotes From Katy

More About the Podcast

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OnThe Verywell Mind Podcast, Amy Morin, LCSW, interviews experts, authors, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and other inspirational people about the strategies that help them think, feel, and do their best in life.

Katy Milkman, PhD, is a professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She’s also the host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology.

She is the co-founder and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center whose mission is to advance the science of lasting behavior change.

Her new book, How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be is a best-seller that describes the little things you can do to make a big difference in your life.

Katy invests her time into better understanding behavior change. And she turns her research into easy-to-understand strategies that her readers and listeners can apply to their daily lives.

She freely shares her own habits and how her research has changed how she approachesbehavior change. For example, she discovered that listening to audiobooks while working out increases her chances of exercising. She paired something fun with something she doesn’t really enjoy, and itmotivatedher to exercise more often.

Katy even talks about studies that don’t align with her expectations, such as the exercise study she conducted with Google. However, her willingness to share her insight to help others is one of hermental strengths.

9 Little Habits That Make You a Better Decision Maker

Sometimes people assume you should bementally strongenough to change your habits no matter what. And any failed attempts is a sure sign of weakness.

But, it’s clear that certain modifications to the environment can be key to creating lasting change. Setting yourself up for success is a sign of strength, not weakness.

Some mental health problems can make it more difficult to create change. Depression, for example, might try to convince you that your efforts won’t work.Anxietymight tell you that bad things are going to happen if you try to change.

But, mental health issues don’t mean change is impossible. It’s just another obstacle that you can work on addressing as you strive toward your goals.

Katy Milkman, PhDA great source of information is like-minded others in your social network who have similar constraints, similar lifestyles and have actually figured out already how to make progress. So why not try to learn from them?

Katy Milkman, PhD

A great source of information is like-minded others in your social network who have similar constraints, similar lifestyles and have actually figured out already how to make progress. So why not try to learn from them?

How to Deal With the Fear of Failure

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