
29:[Self Help] Carrots & Sticks - Ian Ayres| 3 Keys to use commitments to get things done
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Do You Have a Stick Contract to Stay Smoke Free?
If you have a friend that is just, uh, quit smoking and after six weeks has stayed smoke free, there's still a 50% chance they're going to start up again. You can help by saying they're so excited and you say, look, use, enter into a stick contract now not to smoke for the next, uh, three months or put some money at risk. And this putting this $300 at risk is going to increase the chance that they, uh, stay smoke free or the same thing could be done with weight loss. If you actually offered to pay somebody's, uh, one of your friends, you might help to keep them on the straight and narrow.
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