Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast

Wendy Wood is a professor at the University of Southern California and visiting faculty at Insead Business school in France. Wendy has spent the last 30 years studying people's habits and understanding how to change them, and her research has been featured in media publications all over the world and is the focus of her forthcoming book Good Habits, Bad Habits. In this week’s episode, we explore what the latest research is finding out about how we can create and sustain good habits to support our wellbeing. Connect with Wendy Wood:  http://goodhabitsbadhabits.org/ You’ll Learn: [02:38] - Wendy explains why creating good habits can be challenging for many of us. [04:27] - Wendy shares what her research is finding about how we can develop good habits. [06:22] - Wendy shares why her research has found that it doesn’t take 21 days to build a habit. [08:40] - Wendy explains why thinking about the context for the habits we want to create is so important and offers some tips to make it easier to activate the habi