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The cool thing of the happy, they went fire. Welcome to the You are not so smart Episode episode 318 318 I'm So the intention action gap is the researcher's word for you're not doing the thing you know you're supposed to be doing that's going to make your life good. So get off the damn couch and do the thing. We call that the

intention action gap. The intention action gap. And that's the chasm between what you very much intend to do and what you actually do instead.

You may very much intend to work out, to start doing yoga, to meditate, to check on a particular person, to write a certain email, do an errand that's been

on your to-do list for a while, learn a language, organize a shelf, clean out a garage, something.

But instead, you binge a show or scroll on social media, watch TikTok or YouTube or play a

video game, something, or sometimes nothing.

You do nothing for a while. You have a stated, known outcome or goal in mind. Maybe something

you've even written down somewhere. And you want to do it. You wake up thinking, today's the day. You have an

intention, but then you don't follow through. And knowing you are actively not doing what you

ought to be doing while persisting in your not doing of that thing, well, it's so common, so ubiquitous, so human,

there's a term for it in psychology, and that term is the intention, action, gap.

In psychology, they sometimes ask you to visualize this as being on a riverbank with another riverbank in view.

You just can't get there because, well, there's a river between you and the other bank.

Or perhaps it's a shoreline in view of another shoreline with a narrow sea between.

Or maybe you can imagine yourself on a cliff across from another cliff with a canyon in between wherever you're at that's the

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