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BJ Fogg, PhD

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Stanford Lifestyle Medicine I share easy ways to build good habits. NYTimes bestseller “Tiny Habits” In industry, I train product people in Behavior Design, based on the Fogg Behavior Model 🤙Maui & surfing & ocean swimming

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BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Dec 21

Hey, y'all . . .

I welcome any questions you have about habits and behavior change.

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BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jun 9

On Wed I'm training a wonderful nonprofit. I’m teaching them Fogg Behavior Design. This well-known org helps ppl have better health & more hope.

Two leaders trained with me earlier. They now want to upskill colleagues.

Stephanie Weldy & I customized carefully for this org

Now we are ready

A room set up the way BJ Fogg likes it -- tables in a circle, lots of windows and whiteboards

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BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Apr 1

I’d love teaching. And I’m a big fan of other teachers

You go!

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Apr 1

What a fun moment to document.

Most students would love to get out of class early. So don’t be afraid to wrap things up early or do something fun for a few minutes. The students will love it.

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Geoff Girvitz @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social · Mar 19

Applying BJ Fogg's Ability Chain to social change

newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/3-circles-...

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Mindfulness over ritual for rehab

Talking politics with kids

“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it."

– Hannah Arendt

3 circles, 6 constraints

Ritual vs. mindful movement, 3 circles, 6 constraints, Kids and politics, An article, a quote, a dad joke

newsletter.dadstrength.com

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BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Feb 14

Hmmm. Is this what you hoped to find? I ask because about 20 years ago I did research on “what makes a website credible” and the results were the opposite of what we’d hoped. It mostly came down to design: If the site looked good, people found the content credible.

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BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Feb 8

Good for you!

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Feb 7

I’m not sure. I’ve been practicing both types of deep squats. I don’t squat with weights, so I don’t have a sense of what works best when I am under strain.

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BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Feb 7

Lotus position is very easy for me but straddle splits is not. I wonder what’s going on.

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Feb 6

Storytelling is a broad concept. So it’s hard to chime in helpfully. But I’ll try:

Stories can establish cause/effect relationships, which in turn can shift motivation.

Stories can also establish identity — or articulate an identity that users aspire to have.

There’s more. I’ll stop there

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Feb 6

A general way to think about this area . . .

If you want to engage users, you need to do this:

—> Help users feel successful in a way that matters to them.

There are many techniques for this. Leaderboard is one, but this works only for a small %. For others, it repels.

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Feb 5

Thanks!

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Feb 4

Good for you.

What aspect of notion did you use?

Was there a template, etc., that make this easy?

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BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Feb 1

On the practical side of things (being a teacher), I try not to have names influence my interactions with students. But some names are tough to remember or say, and I’m pretty sure fear of mispronouncing names leads to me calling on those students less often, despite good intentions otherwise.

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Feb 1

I should read the study before commenting, but oh well

Warmth and competence are different constructs, as you know.

These are the two well-established dimensions of credibility.

But I can’t see how this study relates to studies of credibility.

Curious to learn if there’s a connection.

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 30

Hmmm.

This finding doesn’t seem to match what many of us have experienced and seen in the real world.

I wonder what’s going on

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 28

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 25

We also need a stronger English word for disappointment, but not as strong as crushed or devastated

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 24

Yesterday the Stanford students did not ask me "How many days to create a habit?"

(They'd already read my book Tiny Habits.)

But if someone did ask this, I'd say:

How many of you sat in the same spot today as before?

How long did it take for that habit to form?

(Usually, it's "one and done")

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BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 24

Many people think you should build just 1 habit at a time

Nope. You can do more than 1

A Stanford student asked me about this yesterday. So I asked the class:

"How many of you changed where you live this year?"

"How many habits did you create -- all at once?"

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That made my point clear.

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 23

Done. And thank you for the pointer

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 18

Similar . . .

I use MS Outlook because Stanford has made MS the standard for us.

It’s baffling that I have to manually correct typos — super obvious typos — all day long doing email in Outlook.

Am I missing something in the settings? I dunno.

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 18

I’ll be surfing. So will you. Aloha.

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 18

Such a strange mission statement. To me it reads: “We’re gonna be a lot more like the National Enquirer.”

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 15

Just painted my biggest wall this color.

BJ Fogg, PhD @bjfogg.bsky.social · Jan 15

Yes!