Name: Why successful people set habits, not just goals | Wendy Wood
Uploaded: 2022-08-27T17:50:10.000Z
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some researchers who believe that everything we do

To-infinitive

is driven by a desire to achieve something.

And, in fact, we've had some controversy in the literature,

How do habits and goals actually interact?

and what parts are involved in getting someone

It's probably a little bit of both, all of those things,

as if it was goal-directed, as if it was designed

They don't explain anything  that's useful

but just recognize that if  you are trying

to change a behavior that involves repetition,

there's gonna be other mechanisms involved.

The best example of that was with anti-smoking campaigns

And this was one time in which the US government

They taxed cigarettes. They banned smoking in public places.

so you can't find cigarettes on a store shelf anymore.

by addressing the things that change habits.

that goals aren't necessary to drive behavior,

that there is a separation between these two constructs,

but our experience suggests that they're the same.

This lure of phenomenology and our belief in the powers

of introspection, I think are closely tied.

Both of which contribute to this misunderstanding

that habits are not important in human behavior.

we intervene and do something more thoughtfully.

So there's all kinds of different mental models

for the next decade is figuring out how they interact.

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