175. Habits, Changes in Your Physical Space, and More with Adam Hansen, coauthor of Outsmart Your Instincts.

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, Adam Hansen, coauthor of Outsmart Your Instincts who is also the principal and VP of Behavioral Innovation at Ideas To Go is joining me to talk about a whole slew of behavioral goodness. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We talk about habits and how little changes in your physical space can upend your ability to be productive in other parts of life (as well as how to reframe that in a positive way). We also discuss the curse of knowledge and how it impacts businesses and risks of omission versus risks of commission, plus other fun goodies sprinkled throughout. </span></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show Notes:</span></h3> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:07] In today’s episode, I’m excited to introduce you to Adam Hansen, coauthor of</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Outsmart Your Instincts</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:44] Adam is the coauthor of Outsmart Your Instincts and also the principal and VP of Behavioral Innovation at Ideas To Go</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[03:18] Adam shares about himself and his background. He always knew that innovation would be part of his career. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[05:18] They started looking at all the cognitive biases and they wanted to figure out which were the ones causing most of the mayhem in innovation. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[06:16] If you adopt the behavioral innovation approach, you can see three to four times improvement in performance and quality of ideas very early on in innovation.  You can get to better ideas faster.  </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[09:01] All of the thousands of small decisions we make every day that have been automated are lost when you move. Each little thing is so minor that we don’t realize what the cumulative effect of all those small decisions is. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10: