Dan Ariely – What Makes us Feel Good About our Work

A hilarious and insightful journey as Tim Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window encouraging us to think harder about what we’re really procrastinating on, before we run out of time.

Human behaviour is complex, and most of us exhibit some signs of change resistance even when pushed to make big changes in our lives. So how did the UK government successfully convince 60 million of us to turn our daily lives upside down overnight?

Although commonly overlooked, taking positive action to ensure changes progress from being ‘new’ to being ‘normal’ is critical to achieving sustainable change.

Many people regularly start a new year resolving to achieve a new goal, maybe to write a book or eat more healthily and exercise more. Maybe it starts well but after a while it becomes harder and harder to sustain momentum. Roughly 85% of New Years resolutions don’t last according to research, so how do you turn your good intentions into sustained life changes?

After the global events of recent years, it’s no wonder many of us are likely to think of change as a fast-paced sprint that can be unpredictable, unplanned and overwhelming. However a focus on certain core principles can be the key to ensuring that the change is an overwhelming success rather than just overwhelming!

Covid-19 has taken our attention for the past 18 months, rightly so, and now we need to turn our attention back to our next existential challenge, our climate and reducing emissions. This excellent book gives us cause for optimism that many of the solutions we need are within our reach.