Forming (and Keeping) Positive Habits

Make 2024 a year for growth! In this Meetup Live event, we’re talking about making incremental progress toward your goals with Shut Up & Write! (SUAW), Meetup’s largest writing community. Learn about a strategy for making your passions a practice and get advice on making your habits stick.

Join SUAW representatives Céline Leboeuf, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida International University, and Tyler Shores, ThinkLab Manager at the University of Cambridge, for perspectives on making steady progress on your projects. Learn how consistency can unlock major improvement.

Hear how these two speakers have built supportive communities that encourage growth and accountability. Whether you're struggling to maintain a writing routine or are interested in forming other habits, you'll find valuable takeaways at this event. Stick around for a Q&A.

Agenda:

• Introductions (5 mins)
• Panel discussion (40 mins)
• Q&A session (15 mins)

About Céline:
She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Florida International University. Her academic research lies at the intersection of feminist philosophy, the philosophy of race, and twentieth-century French and German philosophy. She has published on beauty trends, such as the thigh gap obsession, on the experience of mixed-race individuals, and on the pioneering feminist author Simone de Beauvoir. Her Psyche piece "Body positivity is fixated on beauty - here's how to fix that" was recognized by the American Philosophical Association for its 2023 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest.

About Tyler:
Tyler Shores is the manager of the ThinkLab at the University of Cambridge and is a Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College. His research focuses on digital habits, social media, and how digital environments shape how we work, think, and learn. Prior to Cambridge, Tyler worked in online education at Stanford, served as a director of digital textbooks at an international education non-profit organization, and worked at the Google world headquarters in Mountain View, California while running the Authors@Google program. His various work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, WIRED, and many others. And he was once on an episode of The Simpsons.

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