In this lecture, Tamara Gray drew from the book "The Influencer" from Vital Smarts. She talked about some interesting points. She said that in creating good habits and in getting out of bad habits, there are vital behaviors or vital moments that act as a positive feedback loop to these bad habits, or as a negative feedback loop to creating the good habits. In order to get out of bad habits and set good habits, we must identify these crucial moments that move us farther away from our goals, then target these specific moments to change our behavior so that we can move further towards our goal. We need to look for examples of positive deviance in our lives, so that we can look back upon them and recognize what it takes to do these good things and set good habits.
She talked about six steps to influencing people:
1) Personal Motivation - make the undesirable desirable. Story-telling can be used to motivate people to quit AIDS-inducing behavior in Tanzania. Vicarious experiences are even better to motivate people.
2) Personal Ability - surpass your limits. Demand deliberate practice. practice, break the skill into small parts, get feedback from a coach, prepare for setbacks.
3) Social Motivation - harness peer pressure. find strength in numbers by targeting the influencers. Pave the way and enlist the power of those who motivate.
4) Social Ability - Seek the support of those who make it possible for you to achieve.
5) Structural Motivation - design reward and accountability. link rewards to vital behaviors. abundance mentality - NOT the employee of the month, but rather motivate everyone. not just one person.
6) Structural Ability - change the environment. use the power of space, data and cues, and tools.
Most of this stuff truthfully went over my head, but I did learn something important about tackling problems - you gotta take em down at the crucial points. Then we can take our inner monsters and chase out any devils that are chasing us.
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