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How to get motivated - by losing?! (with Monica Wadhwa)

How to Be a Better Human

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Are Near Losses Equally Motivating?

There's this spectrum where on one end we have motivation, and on the other end we have satiation. It seems like the more that we get what we want, the less we're abotet,. Right? In fact, in one of my really like oder papers, and instead of giving people a whiff of an odor, we gave them like 13 minutes of a pleasant odor. You satiate people with a lot, and you're literally like satisfying that motivation energy. Why aren't all losses equally motivating? It boils to your anticipation and the motivation energy, right? Y. I do find that near losses, this satly came from my lottery playing experience of life. I

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