Understanding Commitment Devices

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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