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The Science of Motivation | A Slight Change of Plans
WorkLife with Adam Grant
The Impatience Gap in Career Transitions
The empathy gap is our tendency not to be very empathetic to our future selves. Make the goals when you aren't totally full and it's easy to say that you're always going to be able to eat the healthier option. Usually we don't really care about the specific target that we set. We care about setting a goal so that we are motivated, right? So that we want to work hard. If we perceive that the goal is completely unrealistic, then we give up and we work much less than if we set a more realistic but motivating goal.
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