There’s a common misconception that nudges are covert manipulations, a way to trick people into making certain decisions. But as Thaler and Sunstein argue, nudging is about helping people make choices that align with their own goals. It’s about creating environments where the path of least resistance leads to beneficial outcomes.

Here I explore 2 known, 1 lesser known term and 1 entirely made up behavioural convention to motivation.

In the vast ocean of consumerism, each choice we make is a drop that can either ripple out to support a tsunami of change or merely evaporate into the sea of the status quo.

Behavioural science shows us that small nudges can lead to big shifts. The ‘Piano Staircase’ initiative encouraged more people to take the stairs simply by making it fun. Imagine applying this thinking to environmental behaviours. It’s not just about making the sustainable choice easier but making it more appealing, by innovating and disrupting the norm with a creativity-led approach.

In the arid landscapes of corporate boardrooms and government policy hives, the term “strategy” often echoes like a Pythonesque hymn confined to the scope of quantifiable metrics, data-driven insights, and over worshipped models. It’s as if Apollo, the God of Reason, has dominated the conversation, muting his twin Artemis, the Goddess of Intuition and Creativity. If art, culture, and humanity as taught us anything it’s that these 2 cannot exist without each other.