Revisiting a Classic: Temptation Bundling

10 months ago

For disastrous humans for illustration myself, routines are beautiful damn important.

I’m easy distracted, impacted by my environment, and powerfully influenced by the group astir me. A predictable regular gives maine nan champion chance to still get worldly done while being human.

Unfortunately, while traveling, plentifulness of things gaffe by nan wayside.

And this past week I recovered myself walking and falling down connected my nerd duties.

I needed to drawback up connected House of nan Dragon (Season 2 is simply a large step-up!), and I was besides down connected a fewer of my favourite nerdy podcasts.

I thought astir really I would negociate to get caught up while besides getting my workouts done. I cognize that I consciousness for illustration a amended quality being aft I exercise.

And past I remembered a habit-building method I had learned astir years ago.

Before I started penning astir it, I googled nan technique…only to recognize I had already written astir it! Good job, Past Steve!

(I conjecture erstwhile you people 1000+ articles complete 15 years, it’s bound to happen.)

The method is called “Temptation Bundling.”

It’s erstwhile you harvester 2 activities: 1 you need to do pinch 1 you want to do.

Example: listening to your favourite audiobook aliases podcast ONLY erstwhile you’re astatine nan gym aliases getting your steps in.

As I constituent retired successful my updated article connected Temptation Bundling, Professor Katy Milkman ran an research to trial whether aliases not “audiobooks astatine nan gym only” would power people’s behaviors:

The group successful nan study who were told they could perceive to addictive audio books only while moving retired visited nan gym 51% much often than those who were conscionable told they should workout more.

Knowing that workout is my constant while traveling, I took my ain advice:

I told myself I could only watch House of nan Dragon while walking.

In addition, nan much clip I spent astatine nan gym, nan much of my podcasts I could get through.

Sure enough, I recovered myself jumping statement a fewer other minutes to decorativeness a podcast episode, I went to nan gym an other time for mobility work, and I walked an other mile connected nan treadmill conscionable to spot nan extremity of an episode.

More “nerd” positive much “fitness” = win!