Kelly McGonigal

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The School of Greatness · The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

But yeah, there's so many applications to this.

And when it comes to things like behavior change too, that like if you have a goal for yourself, we know from the literature, one of the most important things you can do is pay attention to and then predict how you're going to be pulled away from that goal.

So when I, you know, when I used to teach this class called the science of willpower and everyone had a willpower goal in the class and the very first assignment first week is don't change anything right now.

I want you to pay attention to how you are not doing whatever it is you say your goal is.

I want like a process map of it.

What do you say to yourself?

What distracts you?

What gets in the way?

What do you give your time to instead?

What are the emotions that trigger the behavior you're trying to change?

I want you to get all that data.

And then you start planning for it rather than, say, just starting from a commitment.

I'm going to do this and hope for the best.

I'm actually not a big, I'm always a fan of do it together.

I mean, I think there's also something empowering and knowing that there are choices you can make, even if you don't have access to the latest and greatest brain stimulation techniques and

like that going for a walk in nature has the same effect on your brain as the brain stimulation.

That's to me, that's empowering.

But at the same time, I'm not, I'm not like a DIY, like,

drink herbal tea instead of get treated for cancer person.

We're not geniuses.

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