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The Surprising Science of Motivation (it’s not what you think) | Emily Balcetis

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The Importance of Focusing on Physical Goals

When we set big goals, for instance, they are often things that aren't going to get accomplished in one day or one week, maybe not a month. The hardest ones are those that require us to give up temptations today and then make choices every day for something that won't confer a benefit until far off in the future. So if that conception of time that temporal distance is part of the problem can we do something to bring that far off future closer to the here and now? And this is one of four strategies that you lay out actually in your book,. You describe it just now in the context of a physical goal, like a meaningful physical goal. Does this also relate to let

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