Change Anything

Authors: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler

Non-fiction, how to change anything. Six critical points:
1. Love what you hate
2. Do what you can't
3 & 4. Turn accomplices into friends
5. Invert the economy
6. Control your space

Willpower is useless, there are skills that will serve you better. The weight loss chapter gives these examples:
1. find exercise & healthy food you love, tell yourself a vivid story of why you want to change, visit your default future, use value words, connect to who you are becoming, make it a game
2. Skill scan (what do you know & need to learn), employ deliberate practice (break skill down and practice each in short intervals, get instant feedback & evaluate, prepare for setbacks), learn to distract yourself in weak moments
3 & 4. Add new friends, have check-ins & be accountable, have transformation conversation with partner/cook
5. use incentives(in moderation and combination) and loss aversion
6. build fences (keep bad stuff out), manage distance (exercise close, brownies far), use cues, use tools

We'll see if this ever gets implemented. Some of it does work, especially the distraction technique.