Little Happier: A Surprising and Subtle Way to Change Your Habits: Consider Texas
Sep 15, 2025•5 min
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Episode description
Texas’s extremely successful anti-littering campaign illustrates an important principle about habit change: Sometimes changing our habits requires us first to change our identity.
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