Tweaking the environment changes behavior

Shaping behavior toward a desired result can be helped “tweaking the environment”—“making the right behaviors a little bit easier and the wrong behaviors a little bit harder.”[1] It presents this challenge:

Is it possible to design an environment in which undesired behaviors—whether yours or your colleagues’—are made not only harder but impossible?[2]


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Shaping the Path:


  1. Switch – Heath and Heath (2010), ch. 9, 188. ↩︎

  2. Ibid., ch. 9, 200. ↩︎