# Two interesting podcast episodes on habits

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**Created:** [January 1, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/two-interesting-podcast-episodes-on-habits/6167 "2020-01-01T12:01:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![narthur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/narthur/32/5113_2.png) [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/two-interesting-podcast-episodes-on-habits/6167/1 "2020-01-01T12:01:25Z")

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> **[Creatures Of Habit from Hidden Brain](https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/national-public-radio/hidden-brain/e/66266277?refid=asa&autoplay=true)**
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> Listen to Hidden Brain episodes free, on demand. At the beginning of the year, many of us make resolutions for the months to come. We resolve to work out more, procrastinate less, or save more money. Though some people stick with these aspirations,...

This one mentions commitment devices, among other things:

> **[716: The Right Way to Form New Habits from HBR IdeaCast](https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/hbr-ideacast/e/66280474?refid=asa&autoplay=true)**
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> Listen to HBR IdeaCast episodes free, on demand. James Clear, entrepreneur and author, says that the way we go about trying to form new habits and break bad ones — at work or home — is all wrong. Many people, he says, focus on big goals without...

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**Author:** ![halfplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@halfplane](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/halfplane)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/two-interesting-podcast-episodes-on-habits/6167/2 "2020-01-02T09:18:49Z")

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I like this podcast as a way of giving myself a push to do things I know I should try and seeing different ways to think about them:

> **[Focused - Relay FM](https://www.relay.fm/focused)**
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> David Sparks and Mike Schmitz are not nearly as productive as they’d like to be. Join these fellow travelers (and a bunch of special guests) as they share the best ways to get focused, and talk though their successes and failures along the way.

I know this one has been mentioned before by others, touches on related things (there’s a lot of Apple obsessive stuff too, less interesting for me – and they meander over other topics too):

> **[Cortex - Relay FM](https://www.relay.fm/cortex)**
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> CGP Grey and Myke Hurley are both independent content creators. Each episode, they get together to discuss their working lives.

interested to hear if other people have listening recommendations connected with habits etc.

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**Author:** ![halfplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@halfplane](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/halfplane)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/two-interesting-podcast-episodes-on-habits/6167/3 "2020-01-02T21:56:17Z")

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Just listened: the first of them (Hidden Brain) I found particularly interesting, thanks for the links @narthur.