How To Stick To Your Resolutions, With Ayelet Fishbach
Big Brains
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Loss Oversion
Our brains are obsessed with measuring our progress, and a specific number gives us a toall. If you know that this is your goal and you just did nine thousand and 900 steps, you feel disappointed. Another wesech looked at the distribution of a marthon raning times. Andther weso choise to thea i hear at por george van davin cob looking at the almost ten million marthon runners in the us. There are many more people that finish the marthon at three hours and 59 minutes four hours and one minute. Why is that? People really want to run a markon under four hours. That target is highly modivated.
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