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Dr Emily Balcetis - How to Never Quit Your Long-Term Goals Using Neuroscience-Based Tools for Focus and Motivation

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Node Attention and Its Effects on Performance

People perform better when they focus narrower and only on the next step instead of what I don't like a whole distance ahead. When that happens, people are motivated to try to go for it because it defies their previous expectations about what was possible for themselves. So that node attention is having a direct impact on our psychology that is then translating into a change in our actual performance.

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