Goals Toolkit: How to Set & Achieve Your Goals
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In this episode, I describe science-based protocols to set and achieve your goals in a way that maximizes the likelihood of reaching them. I explain how to define a priority and reach a specific goal by systematically assessing the challenge level, measurability, milestones, and action states needed to make progress from start to finish. I also explain research-supported tools to improve your performance during cognitive or physical goal work — including directed visualization, variable reward timing, and optimizing your physical environment. I also dispel common myths about goal setting and achievement. This episode provides a science-supported toolkit of zero-cost strategies for goal-setting, goal-pursuit, and goal-completion that can be applied to any physical or cognitive endeavor.
For the full show notes, including articles, books, and other resources, visit hubermanlab.com.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Goal Setting Toolkit
(00:02:09) Sponsors: Eight Sleep & Maui Nui
(00:04:43) Biology of Goal Setting & Pursuit
(00:08:50) Tool 1: Choose a Priority Goal
(00:12:04) Tool 2: Pursue Lofty Goals
(00:17:23) Tool 3: Define Verb Actions, Measurability & Specificity; Writing vs. Typing
(00:24:06) Tool 4: Visual Reminder Myth; “Post-It Fallacy”
(00:26:44) Tool 5: Accountability Myth, “Don’t Tell the World” Rule
(00:31:35) Intrinsic Motivation & Goal Achievement
(00:32:58) Sponsor: AG1
(00:33:54) Tool 6: Measurable Goal; Quarterly Cycle
(00:37:35) Tool 7: Quantifiable Goals; Book Writing
(00:43:34) Tool 8: Visualization of End; Motivation & Negative Thinking
(00:50:38) Sponsor: InsideTracker
(00:51:44) Tool 9: Visual Target/Finish Line Training & Perceived Effort
(01:05:50) Tool 10: Distance from Phone
(01:08:31) Tool 11: Random, Intermittent Reinforcement; Cognitive Rewards
(01:17:11) Tool 12: “Middle Problem”; Time Chunking
(01:23:16) Tool 13: Circadian Rhythm & Attention
(01:30:09) Tool 14: Protocol Flexibility, Subjective Feelings
(01:32:13) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Neural Network Newsletter, Social Media
Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac
Disclaimer
In this episode, I describe science-based protocols to set and achieve your goals in a way that maximizes the likelihood of reaching them. I explain how to define a priority and reach a specific goal by systematically assessing the challenge level, measurability, milestones, and action states needed to make progress from start to finish. I also explain research-supported tools to improve your performance during cognitive or physical goal work — including directed visualization, variable reward timing, and optimizing your physical environment. I also dispel common myths about goal setting and achievement. This episode provides a science-supported toolkit of zero-cost strategies for goal-setting, goal-pursuit, and goal-completion that can be applied to any physical or cognitive endeavor.
For show notes, including referenced articles and additional resources, please visit hubermanlab.com.
Use Ask Huberman Lab, our new AI-powered platform, for a summary, clips, and insights from this episode.
Thank you to our sponsors
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Goal Setting Toolkit
(00:02:26) Sponsors: LMNT & Waking Up
(00:04:43) Biology of Goal Setting & Pursuit
(00:08:50) Tool 1: Choose a Priority Goal
(00:12:04) Tool 2: Pursue Lofty Goals
(00:17:23) Tool 3: Define Verb Actions, Measurability & Specificity; Writing vs. Typing
(00:24:06) Tool 4: Visual Reminder Myth; “Post-It Fallacy”
(00:26:44) Tool 5: Accountability Myth, “Don’t Tell the World” Rule
(00:31:35) Intrinsic Motivation & Goal Achievement
(00:33:22) Sponsor: AG1
(00:33:54) Tool 6: Measurable Goal; Quarterly Cycle
(00:37:35) Tool 7: Quantifiable Goals; Book Writing
(00:43:34) Tool 8: Visualization of End; Motivation & Negative Thinking
(00:50:38) Sponsor: InsideTracker
(00:51:44) Tool 9: Visual Target/Finish Line Training & Perceived Effort
(01:05:50) Tool 10: Distance from Phone
(01:08:31) Tool 11: Random, Intermittent Reinforcement; Cognitive Rewards
(01:17:11) Tool 12: “Middle Problem”; Time Chunking
(01:23:16) Tool 13: Circadian Rhythm & Attention
(01:30:09) Tool 14: Protocol Flexibility, Subjective Feelings
(01:32:13) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Neural Network Newsletter, Social Media
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The Huberman Lab podcast is hosted by Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the department of neurobiology, and by courtesy, psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. The podcast discusses neuroscience and science-based tools, including how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health, as well as existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works.
Huberman has made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function, and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills, and cognitive functioning. He is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow and was awarded the Cogan Award, given to the scientist making the most significant discoveries in the study of vision, in 2017.
Work from the Huberman Laboratory at Stanford School of Medicine has been published in top journals, including Nature, Science, and Cell, and has been featured in TIME, BBC, Scientific American, Discover, and other top media outlets.
In 2021, Dr. Huberman launched the Huberman Lab podcast. The podcast is frequently ranked in the top 10 of all podcasts globally and is often ranked #1 in the categories of Science, Education, and Health & Fitness.