Motivating Yourself Versus Motivating Others?

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It's easier to think about how to incentivise others than to incentivis yourself. Of course, you can use the wrong incentives for others as well as for yourself. The main differences in when we look at incentives is that it's harder on the other wand self control. This is much more in ne gent insentivising ourselvess oyes. And then do you have some thoughts when it comes to when we're motivating ourselves, verses trying to motivate others? Do you kind of, like the same rules and principles apply? Or there are some distinctions in ways we want to play the game a bit differently based on the target?

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 —

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• 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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