Leverage Prediction Errors and Saliency

Sarah shows how small wins, novelty, and positive surprises strengthen habits via saliency and reward learning.

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Welcome back to the communal Schauer! This week we’re doing a part two to how to make your new years resolutions actually stick and hint; we need to efficiently, effectively, and strategically utilize saliency. We want to find the most direct route, give ourselves guardrails, space expectations, and leave a little *rewarding* bread crumb trail so our brain and body (together) keep showing up! I’m wishing you all nothing but the absolute best, you can absolutely do this. Do not beat yourself up if you flub in January, just keep it pushing.

Thank you all for making this year an absolute delight! I cannot stress how much you all have made my learning and growth journey so incredibly worthwhile. Your belief in me, a somewhat total stranger, has been invaluable. Please absolutely utilize that with yourself and your goals. I have received but a fraction of your conviction and I can only imagine what you can achieve if you aim that power, that consistency, back at yourself.

That being said, I hope you all have a wonderful New Year’s, we’ll chat in 2026!

Resources:

The Science of Nutrition: Debunk the Diet Myths and Learn How to Eat Well for Health and Happiness - Rhiannon Lambert

What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change - Emily Falk

On Muscle : The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters - Bonnie Tsui

This Is What It Sounds Like - Susan Rogers & Ogi Ogas

Reparenting: Seeking Healing for Your Inner Child

https://positivepsychology.com/reparenting/

Difference between expectations and standards

https://theeverymom.com/expectations-versus-standards-with-kids/

5 Rules for Setting SMART goals

https://us.humankinetics.com/blogs/excerpt/5-rules-for-setting-smart-goals#:~:text=You%20may%20have%20learned%20about,met%20in%20the%20time%20allotted