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Nov 2021
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Jonah Berger on How to Change Anyone's M...

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About this episode

Jonah Berger is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He's an international bestselling author, a world-renowned expert on word of mouth, social influence, consumer behavior, and how products, ideas, and behaviors can catch on.

In this episode, Eric and Jonah discuss his book, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind.

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Jonah Berger and I Discuss How to Change Anyone's Mind and …

  • His book, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
  • How people change
  • That most decisions that we make are shaped by other people
  • The major mistake most of us make when it comes to trying to change behavior in ourselves and others
  • How to create change by reducing the barriers and energy required
  • Feeling like we should do something vs because we want to do something
  • People's zones of acceptance and rejection
  • What it means to "highlight a gap" and how it can help us change
  • How the costs of change often come due before the benefits of change are experienced
  • What factors drive Identification vs Differentiation

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