Motivational Freaker

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Basketball players that were grimly reminded of their own inevitable demise before playing took more shots and scored more points in a study published in an upcoming issue of Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. The researchers behind the experiments hypothesize that the pep-talk tactic fits with the established “terror management theory,” which proposes that humans are motivated to seek self-esteem, meaning, and symbolic immortality in order to manage their fear of death. This, of course, is right up Anthony's alley, and he and Jeff discuss how to use this effect practically.

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0:00.0	We have concerns, provides you with joy we hope.
0:04.3	Yeah, we hope. We don't, we never check in to see.
0:06.8	Value?
0:07.7	Yeah, we'd like that.
0:08.8	Well, we would love some joy and value and return in the form of money.
0:12.6	Can we have some money?
0:13.4	Yeah, give us some money.
0:14.6	Patreon.com slash we have concerns.
0:16.1	Patreon.com slash we have concerns.
0:30.8	Things that are still around from the 50s that haven't been properly tended to are creepy as
0:40.5	shit, man. This is we have concerns.
0:43.9	Hi, Jeff Canada.
0:44.7	Hi, Anthony Carbony.
0:46.0	Hello, concerned citizen.
0:47.4	Uh, you know, sometimes there are stories that are good for our show.
0:51.0	And then there are other times there are stories that just seem like
0:54.8	they're so perfect for you.
0:56.7	Just written right for you.
0:58.0	For me.
0:58.8	Yes.
0:59.6	My stars was it in was it in cool guy weekly?
1:02.3	No.
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