The Power of Habits

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Setting a goal is one thing, but actually doing the work to achieve that goal is a totally different endeavor. If you want to hit your targets and make lasting changes in your life, join author and psychologist Art Markman, Ph.D., to learn what it takes to build and maintain healthy habits that will last a lifetime.

This course won’t serve up superficial self-help tips; instead, you’ll dive into the latest cognitive science behind behavior change. You’ll learn how to build new, positive habits and break the cycle of existing negative ones. You’ll explore what it takes to sustain healthy habits over time and increase your chances of maintaining new habits by empowering your friends and family to make positive changes, too.

Don’t waste another day simply wishing you could make a change that really sticks — equip yourself with the techniques you need to transform your life in measurable, powerful, and positive ways.

• Dr. Art Plays the Sax
• Intro to Your Habits
• The Rule of 3
• Taking a Step Back
• Habits: Creating & Changing
• Understanding Your Habits
• The Motivation System
• The Arousal System
• Commiting to Your Goals
• Goal Satisfaction
• Abstract to Specific Goals
• The Big Picture Goals
• Know Yourself
• Personality Dimensions
• Experiences & Brainstorming
• Advanced Personalities
• Risk Tolerance & The Workplace
• Influence: Use the Environment
• Creating Consistent Mapping
• Affecting Others
• People in Our Environment
• Silos
• Building a Reef
• Approach & Avoidance Goals
• Affect vs Emotion
• Attribution & Choice
• Finding Causes
• Learning Causal Knowledge
• Reusing Knowledge
• Analogy: Problem Solving
• The Power of Redescription
• Defining the Problem
• Tools to Define Problems
• Planning a Problem Solution