"Are you sure you want a habit?"
~ Kelly McGonigal, Stanford Professor
"I teach mindfulness, which is the antithesis of a habit in a way."
~ Kelly McGonigal, Stanford Professor
"Overcoming inertia requires something above and beyond automaticity—requires your own resilience."
~ Kelly McGonigal, Stanford Professor
"We need ‘wantpower'—the ability to remember what you really want. Your big goals."
~ Kelly McGonigal, Stanford Professor
"Teach being comfortable with uncomfortable experiences—like deep breathing for quitting smoking. Tolerate the distress."
~ Kelly McGonigal, Stanford Professor
"Recognize the common humanity of failure"
~ Kelly McGonigal, Stanford Professor
"Social media is moving towards support for self-compassion, but not with quite the same humanity as in-person."
~ Kelly McGonigal, Stanford Professor
"This (mindfulness approach) may not be scalable. This is small scale and it is human."
~ Kelly McGonigal, Stanford Professor
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