Katy Milkman
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200 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 2 Apr
Katy Milkman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Tell somebody you're going to do it.
Maybe get a friend to come over.
Maybe schedule a Zoom with somebody.
Someone in your life a bit like Rima's Alice.
So think about like, how do you set up a situation where failure tomorrow is not really an option because you've changed the calculus and it's no longer sort of cheap and easy to put it off another day.
I think he was like 18. Yeah. No, no.
This was in the playoffs. In the playoffs.
And being okay with it.
Okay. Four, inhale.
Yeah, I guess you can see a little bit.
For years working it out.
Align your body.
Really?
She's a great actor as well.
Yeah, well, our motivation to make change is actually just like our motivation to do anything, by the way, tends to be sort of, you know, it ebbs and flows. There are times when we are in a more reflective, action-oriented, change-oriented mode and times when we're more pessimistic or just sort of going with the flow because we're
you know in the middle of things and so actually i've done some research on something i call the fresh start effect this is with um heng chen dai who's down the street at ucla my former student and jason reese senior fellow at wharton and what we have have shown in our work is that there are certain moments that feel like a new beginning in life like when So one that you know about already.
New Year's or? Yes. Exactly right. Like you didn't need me to come here and tell you about any fancy science. You're like, yeah, I know about New Year's.
Yeah. There are moments that feel like, like, OK, I'm turning a page.
Move to a new community. A new job.
You got it. Those are all fresh start moments. Actually, there's trivial ones too, but they can matter. Like the start of a new week can feel like a fresh start. That's true. You sort of sit down, you go into work maybe for the first time in a couple of days, you feel fresh at your desk, ready to sit and think about what are my priorities in a way that you wouldn't in the middle of a week.
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