Everyday Systems Podcast
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Sinopsis
Systematic moderation for sustainable good habits
Episodios
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Everyday Systems Podcast #24: Put the Scale in Perspective
14/02/2007 Duración: 07minHow I lost 10 pounds, overnight, without even trying.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #23: Intelligent Dietary Defaults
07/02/2007 Duración: 09minConvenience is stronger than you are. Accept this fact. But with a little planning, the convenient thing doesn't have to be too awful. Case in point: "optimize your oatmeal."
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Everyday Systems Podcast #22: In Defense of "Failure"
31/01/2007 Duración: 05minStop using evasive euphemisms. Own up to "failure" or you become it.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #21: Extreme Moderation
25/01/2007 Duración: 08minModeration isn't mushy. Learn from extremists by drawing hard lines -- just draw them in different places. Get the clarity of cold turkey abstinence without the sweeping deprivation.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #20: When you don't have 14 minutes
17/01/2007 Duración: 08minNo time to exercise? Get philosophical. Use enlightened self-mockery, a neo-Kantian personal categorical imperative, and an existential leap of action to get you moving.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #19: Personal Punch Cards
10/01/2007 Duración: 11minHow to use index cards for todo lists at the three scales of the chain of command: daily, monthly, yearly.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #18: Chain of Self-Command
03/01/2007 Duración: 10minOrganize your self improvement efforts on three temporal scales: year=general, month=officer, day=footsoldier.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #17: Personal Olympics
14/12/2006 Duración: 07minMake your goals fun, important, and attainable with Personal Olympics.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #16: Monthly Resolution
07/12/2006 Duración: 05minA month is a much better granularity than the more typical yearly resolution we make on new years, because you can estimate better on that smaller scale, and recover and reset faster. And it's long enough (over 21 days!) for some habituation to occur, even with a slip up or two.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #15: Season's Warnings
30/11/2006 Duración: 07minLimit your celebratory eating to the holidays themselves. Adjust your expectations so that your goal is mere maintenance. If you screw up, don't wait till new years to get back on the wagon.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #14: Top 5 Arbitrary Numbers
22/11/2006 Duración: 06minOne thing that every self help guru can agree on is that you have to have an arbitrary number in your system. It is a little weird that the most rational concepts we have available to us -- numbers -- are so irrationally inspiring. But it clearly is the case.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #13: Strictness
16/11/2006 Duración: 07minStrictness builds habit faster. Dumb down what to be strict about with "fence around the law." Avoid punishment and reparations.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #12: 21 days and Negative Tracking
09/11/2006 Duración: 06minUse the full habit traffic light for 21 days to build your habit, then switch to more efficient negative tracking.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #11: Habit Tracking with the Habit Traffic Light
02/11/2006 Duración: 07minNeed to keep track of something? Keep track of behavior, not results, with the Habit Traffic Light. Mark each calendar day with green for success, red for failure, yellow for exempt (S-days). It's cheap and keeps you focused on what you can control.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #10: Habit Friendly Behaviors
27/10/2006 Duración: 05minHow to identify behaviors that are easily automated into unconscious habit.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #9: Habit Management
18/10/2006 Duración: 08minWant results? Frame your goals in terms of behavior. Results goals are just wishful thinking. Automate conscious behaviors into unconscious habits.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #8: Glass Ceiling
11/10/2006 Duración: 09minSmooth out dangerous and humiliating binge drinking into moderate and pleasurable moderate drinking with a 2 drink a day "glass ceiling."
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Everyday Systems Podcast #7: Weekend Luddite
05/10/2006 Duración: 09minFor every labor saving device there seem to be at least two time consuming devices to soak up all that freed time again. As T.S. Eliot put it, we are "distracted by distraction from distraction." Weekend Luddite is a system that addresses (at least in part) this problem of distraction management.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #6: Urban Ranger
27/09/2006 Duración: 08minReimagine yourself so that walking becomes the most important, the most exciting thing you could possibly be doing.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #5: Shovelglove Time
20/09/2006 Duración: 08min14 minutes is one minute less than the smallest unit of schedulistically significant time. No calendar has a finer granularity than 15 minutes. No one ever has a meeting that starts at 9:05 or 9:14. You have no excuse not to do this. Time-wise, it doesn't even register.