The Hardest Promises to Break: Peer Accountability (With Angela Duckworth)

Katy Milkman explores peer accountability and goal achievement. The episode features the story of Jean Nidetch, who founded Weight Watchers after realizing that dieting alone was isolating, and a high school football team that used index cards to sustain a 151-game winning streak. Angela Duckworth joins to discuss why we over-rely on willpower and how changing our circumstances and making goals visible to the right people can dramatically improve our chances of success.