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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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Planning Prompts Are Another Way to Achieve Goals

Planning prompts are another one of your strategies to accomplish goals. Can you tell us about those? Y this is based on the work of n yus Psychologist peter golwitzer. He discovered that a lot of people make plans the wrong way. They form sort of an if then plan. If it is a week night, at five p m, i'll spend an hour practising on duolingo. When you have that specificity, in random assignment trials, you're more likely to follow through. And we've shown you can also nudge other people to make them.

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