Art Markman - Smart Change: Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others

Praise for Art Markmans

Smart Change

This book not only helps you understand yourself but also provides the tools to help you change your behavior. As you work through the innovative exercises in this book, you will create new habits at home, at school, or at workand be on your way to a healthier and happier you. This book will have lasting impact.

Michael F. Roizen, MD, anesthesiologist, internist, and chief wellness officer of the Cleveland Clinic, author of RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be?, and coauthor of the You series

Technology promises to make our lives easier and more efficient, but too often it has just the opposite effectwe feel rushed, harried, and always on, and we take refuge in bad habits like procrastination. If this sounds like you, you need to try Smart Change. Its based on the science of motivation and designed to tap into our habit-forming circuits and use them to create a more satisfying life.

Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive

Art Markmans smart, engaging, quirky book will teach you how to do more of the things that make you healthy, wealthy, and happy, and less of the things that dont. Smart Change is an important book thats also a delight to read.

Adam Alter, assistant professor of marketing and psychology at New York Universitys Stern School of Business and author of Drunk Tank Pink

A smart book for all of us who have tried to change our behavior and failed... Markman leverages the latest scientific research on habits and motivations to offer a practical guide to successful behavior change. In an engaging, easy-to-follow style, the book explains how habits thwart our best intentions but also help us realize our goals. Markman starts with the insight that repeated, consistent kinds of failures are the real challenges in life. He then walks the reader through a series of simple steps to optimize goals. As Markman explains, changing our behavior often involves changing our environments so that its easy to repeat desired actions until they become the habitual, default response.

Wendy Wood, PhD, provost professor of psychology and business and vice dean for social sciences at the University of Southern California

Smart Change presents the science and practice of what might be the toughest job that people take onto change themselves. Enlivened by stories from daily life as well as the headlines, five clear and actionable steps outline the most effective ways that people can change their habits, minds, and bodies. Recognizing that behavioral change is not easybut also not impossiblethis books combination of cutting-edge research and narrative storytelling gives insights that are sure to stick.

Kathleen D. Vohs, PhD, associate professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota and editor of Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications

Change is hard, but it doesnt have to be. In this insightful book, Art Markman gets to the root causes of our habits and explains what it takes to reshape them and make lasting, positive changes in our lives.

David Burkus, author of The Myths of Creativity

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Markman, Arthur B.

Smart change : five tools to create new and sustainable habits in yourself and others / Art Markman, PhD.First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-399-16411-8 (hardback)

ISBN 978-1-101-61582-9 (eBook)

1. Habit. 2. Change (Psychology) 3. Habit breaking. 4. Behavior modification. I. Title.

BF335.M26 2014

152.3'3dc232013034778

First edition: January 2014

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