Summary of Confessions of a Bad Exerciser | Christine Carter | TEDxMarin

00:00:00 - 00:10:00

Christine Carter's TEDxMarin talk discusses her experiences with trying to establish a new exercise habit during the coronavirus pandemic. She recommends starting with a "wildly unambitious" goal in order to establish the neural pathway in your brain for a new habit, which will make it more likely that you will succeed with more ambitious goals in the future.

• 00:00:00 Christine Carter discusses her struggles with getting into a new exercise habit during the coronavirus pandemic, noting that motivation can be hard to sustain. She recommends being willing to be bad at the behavior in order to establish a new routine.
• 00:05:00 Christine Carter shares her experience of starting to exercise again, initially by running for only one minute at a time, and how this minimal effort always turns out to be way better than if she did nothing. She encourages others to try doing one "better than nothing" behavior, even if this behavior is not particularly ambitious, to establish the neural pathway in their brain for a new habit, which makes it more likely they will succeed with more ambitious behavior in the future.
• 00:10:00 In this TEDxMarin talk, Christine Carter shares the story of her journey from being a bad exerciser to becoming a runner. She explains that it was not easy, but by forcing herself to do something that was "wildly unambitious," she was able to shift and eventually achieve her goals.