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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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How to Use Your Narrow Focus to Constrict

LZ Granderson says narrow focus can be applied to other goals, like saving for retirement. LZ: When I do interviews with people, the number one reason they say that they're not saving for retirement is that it just seems so far away. Other might be other goals that we have that require sustained commitment for a really long period of time. So how do we continue to push through that when that's the case? Well, what we can do is try to find ways using narrow focus to constrict to bring that future self closer to the here and now.

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