And what we know is that we tend to think of decision-making as something that we engage in deliberately, we do consciously. One of my books Smarter Faster Better focuses on Annie Duke and how she made decisions as she was a poker player. So I think that habits are really important when it comes to decision-making. And I was wondering-to help frame our conversation-can you just tell us how you see habits and productivity relating to decision-making?Ĭharles: Sure. And I just want to say hello, welcome.Ĭharles: Thanks for having me on. We’ve all been looking forward to this on the team at the Alliance Our mission is to empower students everywhere with decision skills and you’ve written two books that very much in the foreground of our thinking as we’re developing what those learning outcomes should be, and what the standards are. He has appeared on This American Life, N.P.R., the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Frontline.Ĭharles, welcome! I’m so appreciative that you took the time to meet with us and talk to our audience. Charles studied history at Yale and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He currently writes at The New Yorker magazine, and was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer prize for explanatory reporting. Joe: I’m excited to welcome our guest today, Charles Duhigg.Ĭharles is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, and the author of two New York Times Best Sellers: The Power of Habit about the science of habit formation in our lives, companies, and society and Smarter Faster Better about the science of productivity. He was also, for one terrifying day in 1999, a bike messenger in San Francisco.Ĭharles lives in Santa Cruz with his wife and two children. While a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Charles reported from Iraq about American military operations.īefore becoming a full-time journalist in 2003, Charles worked as an analyst for American Property Global Partners, a private equity firm and co-founded SWPA Education Management Group, L.L.C., which developed education programs for medically underserved areas. Kennedy Journalism Award, and other honors. ![]() He has also received the George Polk Award, the Gerald Loeb Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal, the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, the Robert F. That series included examinations of such topics as the factories in China where iPhones and iPads are manufactured. A graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Business School, Charles has been a frequent contributor to This American Life, NPR, The Colbert Report, PBS’s NewsHour, and Frontline.Ĭharles led the team that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for “The iEconomy,” a series that examined the global economy through the lens of Apple. He currently writes for The New Yorker magazine. Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, which spent over three years on New York Times bestseller lists, and Smarter Faster Better, also a New York Times bestseller.
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