How to Stay Motivated with Ayelet Fishbach

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ayelet Fishbach, PhD, is the Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business . She is the past president of the Society for the Science of Motivation and the International Social Cognition Network. She is an expert on motivation and decision making. Dr. Fishbach’s groundbreaking research on human motivation has won the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s Best Dissertation Award and Career Trajectory Award, and the Fulbright Educational Foundation Award.

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Ayelet Fishbach and I Discuss How to Stay Motivated and …

Her book, Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation
The myth of motivation is that we are failures
Changing our situations is the most important step in staying motivated
Setting goals for our real life situations, not our ideal situations
Finding empathy for our future self
Intrinsic motivation predicts sustained engagement
Choosing powerful goals that seem exciting and not a chore
Approach goals as opposed to avoidance goals
How assigning numbers to goals can be powerful
The importance of framing our goals
Why will power alone does not work
Strategies for managing competing goals
Remembering that we don’t have to act on our thoughts or ideas
The middle problem when it’s hard to see progress and stay motivated
Using time brackets for your goals
Why some goals never become habit
The role of incentives in achieving goals
How important it is to track progress

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0:00.0	Set your goals where there is what you eat or the job that you are going to have when
0:05.6	you are in a similar situation to the situation that you will be when you pursue that goal.
0:18.8	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:23.9	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,
0:31.0	and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:37.0	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:43.7	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
0:50.3	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:56.0	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
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1:50.2	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is IELETE Fishback, the professor of behavioral
1:55.6	science and marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She's also the past
2:01.2	president of the Society for the Study of Motivation. IELETE has been published in many
2:06.1	psychology and business journals and served as associate editor of several journals,
2:10.5	including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychological Science. Her research
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