The Science of Habit Change, Why GLP-1s are Disrupting It, and How To Use It To Have Better Conversations | Charles Duhigg

There's a three-part framework for analyzing, breaking, or building any habit. There's also a simple way to identify which ones might be "keystone habits" for you. And the surprising discovery of the GLP1 "habit window" suggests that some people may be benefiting more from the drugs than others.
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and the author of The Power of Habit, which spent over three years on bestseller lists and has been translated into 40 languages; Supercommunicators, also a bestseller published in 2024; and Smarter Faster Better, a third bestseller. Mr. Duhigg writes for The New Yorker magazine and is a graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Business School. He previously wrote for The New York Times, and is a frequent contributor to CNBC, This American Life, NPR, and Frontline. He was also, for one terrifying day in 1999, a bike messenger in San Francisco.
In this episode we talk about:
The cue-routine-reward framework that underlies every habit, good or bad
The "golden rule" of habit change
What "keystone habits" are and how to identify them in your own life
Charles's 45-pound weight loss on a GLP-1 and what it revealed about "food noise"
The GLP-1 "habit window," and why some people may benefit from GLP-1's more than others
Kitchen-sinking: the habit where a fight about one thing becomes a fight about everything
Meta-conversations: asking your partner what they actually need before you respond
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The Science of Effective Communication | Charles Duhigg
Weighing The Extraordinary Benefits And Disturbing Risks Of The New Weight Loss Drugs | Johann Hari
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Additional Resources:
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
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