Exploring Commitment Devices and Their Historical Examples

On this episode, we chat about commitment devices—forcing functions you can add to your life to accomplish more of your goals. Topics covered include:

• What commitment devices are;
• How they work for both approach and avoidance goals;
• The intention—action gap;
• Financial commitment devices;
• Social devices;
• Ways of adding and removing friction for goal attainment.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Journal article: Commitment Devices: Using Initiatives to Change Behavior
• Journal article: Commitment Devices

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