You Can Learn To Change If You Practice It

About this episode

The episode explores the gap between knowing and doing in behavior change, emphasizing the importance of personal motivation and effective systems for sustainable health.

Change doesn’t send a calendar invite. It shows up on an ordinary Tuesday, right when the schedule is already full. We dig into the gap between knowing and doing, and why the real lever for sustainable health isn’t more information, it’s better systems tied to a personal why. Drawing on decades in lifestyle medicine and a fresh read of Who Moved My Cheese?, we unpack the simple, profound truth that anticipation beats reaction when life shifts under our feet. We share how behavior chang...

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Host: Dr. Jules Cormier

Topics covered

• behavior change
• sustainable health
• lifestyle medicine
• personal motivation
• systems thinking

Keywords

• change
• health
• lifestyle
• motivation
• systems
• behavior
• sustainability

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Who Moved My Cheese?

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