TEDxDarwin - Nick Crocker - Floss the teeth you want to keep

Floss the teeth you want to keep. That little piece of advice, simple as it was, sparked a five year journey for Nick Crocker, exploring the ability of individuals to change themselves. As it turns out, we're not really very good at changing ourselves. We now face an unprecedented global health crisis, the source of which is the inability of individuals to moderate their desires. Eating too much, moving too little, smoking, drinking, overworking and undersleeping are now some of the biggest killers in the US.

So how do we change ourselves? It turns out there's a bunch of little hacks that exist to improve your ability to change. Understanding and applying them allows us to improve our ability change in our own lives. As it turns out, this ability has everything to do with the future of the world.

Nick Crocker is an Australian entrepreneur and founder of JoinSessions.com - a social fitness startup inspiring people to live more active lives.

All images drawn and created by Stuart McMillen - recombinantrecords.com

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[cleogonzalez614]

I want this video on my V1000 phone.

[Octane097]

@linibinskiportfp create it!

[Octane097]

thumbs up if you went to floss as soon as you finished watching this

[sarahmoran1]

I remember Nick's blog post on this topic and it stuck with me. And I now floss :-)

[ScotlandDrummond]

Nick Crocker is a legend :)



[Narbethong]

This is great advice for me at present as I have several changes happening at once and am sometimes overwhelmed. There are several strategies that I can utilise. Thanks

[linibinskiportfp]

Tedx has some seriously dynamic public speakers, come to Woolloongabba!

[Sqagg]

its a simple idea. but its one that needs more use by the public.