Achieving Your New Year's Resolutions: The Science of Getting To Where You Want To Be with Best-Selling Author Katy Milkman (repost) (#73)
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The Most Fun Way to Pursue Your Goal
Making hard things seem fun is a much better strategy than making hard things seem important. Research shows that if you encourage people to pursue their goals in ways that are fun, they stick to it longer. When i was a graduate student, i only allowed myself to listen to tempting audio novels, like james patterson's books or harry potter the hunger games,. And i found that that cured two problems at once. One, i stopped waste time at home on indulgent entertainment when i should have been doing my home work; and too, i started craving trips to the gym to find out whatuld happen in my latest thriller.
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