Intention-Action Gap with Anthony...

Intention-Action Gap with Anthony Barrows

You Know Too Much by Pamala Buzick Kim and Eva McCloskey
S1 · E13
Jul 28, 2026
17:52

Episode notes

Your willpower isn’t the problem. The system is.

Anthony Barrows is an applied behavioral scientist who knows way too much about the gap between what you mean to do and what you actually do. He calls it the intention–action gap, and he says almost every social program in the US widens it by design — hidden hoops, forms, stigma, and the psychological cost of walking into the office. Fix the system, not the person.

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