Getting Socially Supportive in a Career

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When ghosts don't have a clear beginning or end, they are much harder to pursue. The problem with imel is exactly as you mention, it never ends. In one study that we found the people literally cut corners in the middle. They were not good at their job. And i think that this is a bit wilike. It just doesn't feel like i'm accomplishing anything. I'm just like on the trade mill. Keep going. Taa, set your daily goll to i answer a certain number of females, or address a certain aspect of the work. Yes, this ras we've acted. Well, so these are some great principles, and i'd love

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 —

• App: RepCount

• 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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