Bring Excitement to What You Do

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In our play here, i'm diagnoeging that what you do is just not exciting for you. You can try listen to music while you work and make your environment more enticing. Ase the that's put around you, images or things that make it more fun. In one of our studies, we encouraged students in a math class to listening to music while they were working on their problems. The teachers were unhappy with us, but the students were doing more math problems. They were more excited t the music. Walso bought some color or pencilo we kind of made it a party. So it you can make your office more like a party without changing the actual work that

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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