Goals Are More Motivating Than Less Motivating

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We find that goals, ta em, that are intrinsic t feel good to pursue, are mortivating. And so ideally, you should think about setting a goal that you have may be 80 % chance of achieving on a daily basis. The studies show that when people are in this zone where they are not sure that they can do it, but if they work hard, they will. In this uncertain zone, this is where you see the energy level picks up and we want people to set dogos more than do not gas or apprortgas not.

Ayelet Fishbach reveals insights into motivation to help you achieve your goals.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The top variable for motivation

2) How to find motivation when you’re just not feeling it

3) How to make incentives really work

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— ABOUT AYELET —

Ayelet Fishbach is a psychologist and a professor at the University of Chicago. She’s the past president of the Society for the Study of Motivation. She is an expert on motivation and decision making and the author of Get it Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation. Ayelet’s groundbreaking research on human motivation has won her several international awards, including the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s Best Dissertation Award and Career Trajectory Award, and the Fulbright Educational Foundation Award.

• Book: "Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation"

• Website: AyeletFishbach.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

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• Book: "How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be" by Katy Milkman

• Book: "The Lying Life of Adults: A Novel" by Elena Ferrante

• Past episode: 665: How to Make Lasting Change – According to Science – with Katy Milkman

• Past episode: 727: How to Start Something New and See it Through with Michael Bungay Stanier

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