Dr Ben Gardner - THE man on habits
The Habits Habit
It is impossible to read any book or paper on habits that has done any level of research without coming across the name "Gardner", quite often in the context of "Gardner, Lally et al".
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Gavan Wall - Habits of Success and Habits of Failure
The Habits Habit
Gavan Wall is a successful entrepreneur and venture capital investor...who lived for 5 years with his wife and three kids in his sisters spare bedroom after he became homeless.
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Martin Grunburg - The Habit Factor
The Habits Habit
Martin Grunburg was talking about habits way before most of the rest of the world woke up to how important they were. Like a decade before Atomic Habits, Tiny Habits or any of the other best sellers from today.
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Habits of a Successful Radio Presenter (and other things)
The Habits Habit
Dave Moore is a multi-award-winning radio presenter. He's fierce successful altogether to he is. But what role did habits play in his life and his success?
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High Performance Habits - With Dr Sylvain Laborde
The Habits Habit
What Separates High Performers from the rest of us?
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Dr Pete Lunn on Why We Do What We Do (and we we don't do what we should)
The Habits Habit
Pete Lunn is the founder and head of the Economic and Social Research Institute's (ESRI)Behavioural Research Unit. A behavioural economist, he holds degrees in Philosophy & Psychology, Neuroscience and Economics. Pete’s primary research interest is economic decision-making and, in particular, how people negotiate trade-offs.
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Rob Cullen on Weight Loss Habits
The Habits Habit
This week's guest is Rob Cullen. Rob and his wife Yvonne lost 13 stone between them, which, obviously, is a huge amount of weight. Importantly, they didn't do it using any mad diet or exercise regime, and just as importantly, because of that the weight has stayed off.
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New Years Resolutions - Why 81% of them fail
The Habits Habit
I wanted to record an episode of the podcast that specifically addressed why you might get the impression from my social media that I'm completely against New Years Resolutions.
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Dr Dana Cohen - Quench - The New Science of Optimum Hydration
The Habits Habit
Dr Dana Cohen is a medical doctor from New York who has co-authored a fascinating book on hydration called 'Quench'.
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Hydration Habits - The Habits of Hydration with Dr Esther Papies & Amy Rodger
The Habits Habit
My guests this week are talking about something that sounds easy, but actually isn't. Drinking water. Or more specifically, drinking enough water to stay hydrated all (or nearly all) of the time.
info_outlineIndestractable - Firstly, I can't tell you how many times I've had to check how to spell that...in fact, I'm just going to check it again. Yeah, that's right. Secondly, this is a really interesting chat with a double New York Times best selling author, Nir Eyal.
Nir's first book 'Hooked' lifted the lid on how Silicon Valley exploits our habitual nature to get us 'Hooked' (to be fair, the clue is in the title) on their products, services and apps.
Nir's second books is 'Indestractable' and it is, sort of, the flip side of the coin. It expands on the 'Hook Model' from Hooked, and looks at things from the perspective of how to avoid getting hooked to start with.
Expect some really practical tips, but also some really deep thinking and questions. Let's cut to the chase. Why don't you do what you say you are going to do? Want to find out? Then listen to this....