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Dr. Emily Balcetis: Tools for Setting & Achieving Goals

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The Goal Gradient Hypothesis

The closer you get to the goal, generally, the harder people, animals work to finish that goal. Do humans do the same thing? You now, even when they're tired, but they can they can see, they can feel that their goal is close. And then there's all kinds of downstream motivational psychological effects that happen from feeling like you're closer by byke by visually misperceiving that space. So yes it goes both ways and we don't have to rely on luck for being a better person at exercising. But we also know from our lab experiments where we don't know about these strategies,  people who practise them tend to be the better runners in the end

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