# How to trick yourself into good behavior

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@IBM
- Speaker: Bob Nease
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/bob_nease_how_to_trick_yourself_into_good_behavior)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

By now, we all know that people make lousy decisions and behave badly. We eat the cake, wait until the last minute to do our taxes, and generally work against our own self-interest no matter how much we want to succeed. So...what can we do to fight it? Behavioral scientist Bob Nease shares some tricks to align our good intentions with our actions.

## Lectures

1. [How to trick yourself into good behavior](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/bob_nease_how_to_trick_yourself_into_good_behavior/28ef270f6980), 12 min (TED's player)