Charlie Rose

lampwyck  05/29/2012 11:16 PM Report

I didn't think the newspaper was distracting. I assumed Charlie was looking for some article that was relevant, or a review of Duhigg's book or something.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/27/2012 02:34 AM Report

'Apple is very secretive, tents over desks. Habit of secrecy through the entire company.'

Yes and it has to be because of intellectual theft.

The list of stolen technology and ideas blows my mind.

The Technology Pirates aren't just in China.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/27/2012 02:28 AM Report

'Apple is the North Star in the American business psyche.'

Poor greed.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/27/2012 02:24 AM Report

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” Warren Buffet

Warren likes the college age kids so he can get them to start good habits early.

Reading is a habit every child should learn.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/27/2012 02:19 AM Report

Charlie,

Was this the next day's paper you were flipping through during the interview?

Also, having your morning coffee?

It is tough having to work two jobs--so sometimes you gotta multi-task.

Charles saw what it would be like if he was your wife trying to talk to you at breakfast.

Did you have breakfast too?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/27/2012 02:15 AM Report

My "habit loop," three-part process.

First, there's a cue, or trigger, that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and let a behavior unfold. "The clock says time to watch Charlie Rose".

"Then there's the routine, which is the behavior itself."

"I am watching Charlie Rose."

The third step, he says, is the reward: something that your brain likes that helps it remember the "habit loop" in the future. "I am learning from Charlie Rose."

Oh no Charlie, you are a habit, "I can't quit you."

(Well I can but it would involve finding the true reason I watch and then find another habit I like better.)

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/27/2012 02:10 AM Report

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Gelles  03/26/2012 08:44 AM Report

"Habit" is a primary force governing human behavior that has been studied from the beginning of language; after all, language is a habit.

By chance, the discussion of MAD MEN at http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12256 is a discussion of a habit as well as of MAD MEN, the popular soap opera/drama.

Soap operas as significant satire or story are themselves in print or on the screen. But they are also habits -- and if you're into MAD MEN as a habit, its content inside your brain is really different than what it is before the habit is formed. Before it becomes a habit it belongs to others., Afterward its yours. You can know a habit in unique ways that no one but you experiences. Habits and thoughts are very similar in this respect. Everything you believe is your own no matter how hard we try to share thoughts with each other.

Still, however, People can "share" with each other more or less, of what is the same. Ideally, "more" is better. And "less" approaches "NOT-share" very fast.

I think until I read Duhiggs, I will try to continue my thoughts on habits in other interview pages where the force of habit has great weight.

tabs  03/24/2012 11:47 AM Report

Let us keep this brief. Now that we have heard Mr Duhiggs message we all now can live more aware, happier and productive lives. Thank You one is appreciative of Mr Duhiggs effort. But wait, there is that word, "EFFORT." Nothing comes for free, one has to work and struggle with with this stuff to make it work.

What one heard in Mr Duhiggs presentation is a myriad of detail about how and what he figured out about how habits are formed. However what MR Duhigg seemingly fails to realize is the elephant in the room and that is what he is really doing is discovering the mechanism or proceses of how human beings function. This is where one can can say he is on the right track and that he has a lifetime of work ahead of him.

bak70  03/24/2012 05:08 AM Report

Hi .

I think it is a very interesting subject. The idea of adoption of any good habit can play a big role in our lives .

To start a habit you need to start, the hardest part is to start . When you start something it becomes a very essential part of your life .

Last, as it mentioned before the pages turning over is really annoying for both the guest and the viewers.

thanks :-)

bonalibro  03/23/2012 08:45 PM Report

The pages of that newspaper turning over as Charlie's guest was speaking was not only distracting, it made Charles Duhigg look uncomfortable, as if aware his host weren't listening to him, and changed the tone of the entire show. Downright rude and unprofessional. Not what I expect when I watch Charlie Rose.

kadie2205  03/22/2012 01:04 PM Report

Discussing the habits of business...the secrecy habit Steve Jobs demanded kept workers focused. Change that and the entire organization will falter with workers becomming distracted from perfection of their work. Workers Cue=Demand Workers Behavior=secrecy & focus - Workers Reward=higest level of self satisfaction Business Cue-Niche Business Behavior=Focus Business Reward=best product, worlwide recognition & $

REMant  03/22/2012 12:33 PM Report

I detect the hand of our Mr Brooks here, because it was Hume and Burke who made so much of habit and the contention that we are slaves to passions, customs and traditions, instead of reasoning creatures. That has been the tool of tyranny from the time of the Pharisees at least. The appeal to common law in the American Revolution being the exception that proves the rule, because it was elevated to natural law status, not to be demoted until "legal realism" (legal relativism, actually) came along.

You can I suppose kill off almost anything by separating ppl and keeping them, for instance, from their Facebook or Twitter habit as much as marketplaces and constitutional conventions, or their Bibles.

The claim often made in the revolutionary era was that since ppl act before they feel (i.e., think), habit was necessary. And 100 yrs later William James, in his Principles of Psychology intoned: "Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor."

The so-called cognitive revolution in learning theory of the past generation quashed that kind of behaviorism and nearly every psychologist today is happy to be rid of it, if those who must generate books to pay Manhattan rents are not.

Mandeville sneered: "No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from...." Mark Twain said simply: "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

And Aristotle used habit to temper Plato with idea of equilibrium, Rousseau to fight civic corruption, even if Horace Bushnell sought to abolish original sin like B F Skinner.

And if Mr Duhigg had looked back a bit he'd have discovered that arranging the hierarchy of incentives has been a staple of management gurology for a very long time.

I won't deny, nor would any 18th c revolutionary, that some things are habitual in the sense that they appeal to passion, for instance eating too many sweets, tho I am not sure very many dietitians think you can halt obesity by simple change of habits anymore. Still, eating times, like sleep schedules, do become routine and if you want to lose weight, I'd counsel skipping lunch along with eating some yogurt every day, and getting enough rest.