Welcome back to the WOOP podcast, where we sit down with top athletes, researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak and what you can do to unlock your own best performance.

I'm Kristen Holmes, VP of Performance Science at Woop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

It is Quidders' Week, and if you have been going strong with your January jumpstart resolutions,

we've got a great episode to help you keep working towards your goals.

We brought back clips from some of our best guests who share their tips on how to accomplish goals and

stay motivated. Whether you are trying to sleep better, manage weight, drink less alcohol, break a

bad habit, or develop a new habit, these tips can really help keep you going. When it comes

to your general willingness to learn something or to do something,

one of the things we've learned about the science behind motivation is that the level of

difficulty of the goal can influence whether you continue pursuing that goal. We call this the

Goldilocks rule in that the goal needs to be not too easy or not too hard.

In either of those scenarios, you can get apathetic if it's too easy or paralyzed if it's too

difficult.

You want the goal to be in the sweet spot.

I call this the challenging zone.

As you progress with your goal, you might

need to add constraints to make it a little bit more challenging, to get out of that easy zone,

or take a step back or slow down so you move from too difficult back into challenging. Recognizing

the relationship between these zones and how the effect motivation is truly the key.

In this episode, you'll hear from author and endurance athlete Rich Roll, Super Bowl champion, Steve Weatherford,

Paralympic track athlete Scout Bassett, Olympic diver Tom Daly, and CrossFit athlete Noah Olson.

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