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BJ Fogg

14 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2020 by BJ Fogg · across every show →

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Jun 23, 2020 bullish
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BJ Fogg: Most people form automatic habits within five days using positive emotion
“In my data, I've seen for years that the vast majority of people report that a habit has become automatic or very automatic within five days, and that's a function of their emotion as they do that new behavior.”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 1:05:45 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fogg: 20% of Tiny Habits participants take on hard behaviors in five days
“And about 20% of the people, week after week, would report that within the five-day program they would step up and do a hard behavior.”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 33:08 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020
Insight
Fogg: The feeling of success wires in habits and sustains change
“The feeling of success is what wires in the habit, And it keeps people going.”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 32:23 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020 negative
Opinion
Fogg: Silicon Valley culture was dehumanizing, transactional, and driven by greed
“I'd moved out of Silicon Valley in about 2001 because I just felt like it was dehumanizing me. And so, even though I still had teaching and research at Stanford, we kind of escaped about two hours north where I, where we moved to live next to a river, and the …”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 3:24 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020
Insight
Fogg: Self-efficacy and confidence generalize across completely different domains
“So I do think that sense of being able to take action and get good results can generalize across domains, even though self-efficacy has mostly been conceptualized as domain-specific.”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 31:09 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020 negative
Insight
BJ Fogg: Repetition does not create habits, it only correlates with habit strength
“There has been a lot of stuff out in the world that says repetition creates habits, but that's actually not how it works. If you look at the study that people cite most when they're making that claim, it's a 2009, 2010 study. It was, you will see that that stu…”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 1:02:34 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020
Insight
Fogg: Motivation and ability compensate for each other to drive action
“It's a compensatory relationship, so they can compensate for each other. So if motivation is Low for any given behavior, then the ability must be high. In other words, it has to be easy to do. Otherwise, you won't do it. If motivation is low, and it's hard, yo…”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 24:13 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020
Insight
BJ Fogg: Changing perception of surroundings changes one's behavioral environment
“That's one way we can change the environment is change our perception of it.”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 15:14 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020
Insight
Fogg: Social behavior change relies on destination or journey groups
“Like if you want to change your behavior, you can join a destination group or a journey group. A destination group is a community that is already doing what you aspire to do. So let's say you aspire to work out. Oh, let's pick something easier. You aspire to s…”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 42:03 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020
Insight
Fogg: Success in tiny behaviors triggers a full personal identity shift
“When people feel successful, even on tiny things, it changes how they see themselves. In other words, you can get an identity shift from even very tiny changes you feel successful around.”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 33:43 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020
Insight
Fogg: Prompts for hard tasks must occur during peak motivation waves
“And if you need people to do hard things, you've got to prompt them When there's a motivation wave, not after the wave has subsided.”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 22:30 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020
Insight
Fogg: Sustaining high motivation is hard; adjust task difficulty instead
“And that is really exciting because it's quite hard for anybody to design a way to increase your motivation and sustain it, keep it at super high levels over time. That's very hard to do. So because that's a reality, instead you can say, well, if motivation's …”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 25:00 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020
Insight
BJ Fogg: Behavior is made easier only through training, environmental redesign, or shrinking actions
“You can change the person to make it easier to do by skilling them up. You can change the environment by giving people tools and resources or yourself tools and resources. And in the third approach, if you need this, you take it and you just Scale the behavior…”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 12:32 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
Jun 23, 2020 positive
Insight
Fogg: Behavior design's first maxim is helping people do what they already want
“Maxim number one is help people do what they already want to do.”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 27:29 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
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