Build INFLUENCE with science-based goal setting strategies: Dr. Katy Milkman, author “How to Change” (Episode 169)

Build INFLUENCE with science-based goal setting strategies! (Episode 169) GUEST: Dr. Katy Milkman, author “How to Change”   THIS WEEK’S TOPIC: We dive into the science behind making our goals stickier, kicking bad habits, what to do when we slip up, and how best to motivate others!  As we cruise into the holidays and get ready to welcome a New Year, it’s the perfect time to start thinking about goals or maybe a habit you want to break. It might even be learning to get better control over your emotions. Whatever it is, goal setting and challenging ourselves to do and be better is a big part of INFLUENCE! This week’s guest offers incredibly smart ways to think about setting goals that really do stick!   THIS WEEK’S GUEST: Dr. Katherine “Katy” Milkman is an award-winning professor of behavioral science at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the co-director (along with Professor Angela Duckworth (author of “Grit”) of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change whose work is being chronicled by Freakonomics Radio.  Katy is an expert on how to spur positive and lasting change, and she’s the author of the bestselling book: How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You are to Where You Want to Be.” She hosts the popular Charles Schwab behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and is the former president of the international Society for Judgment and Decision Making.   Over the course of her career, Katy has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change. She earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University (summa cum laude), where she studied Operations Research and American Studies and her PhD from Harvard University where she studied Computer Science and Business.   KEY TOPICS: THE SCIENCE BEHIND WHY WE HAVE TROUBLE BREAKING BAD HABITS AND ACHIEVING OUR GOALS: Unlike most self-help authors, Katy’s approach is based in science, and a dee