The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Another thing that can help keep motivation high is to do what my friend Katy Milkman calls temptation bundling. So this has, number one, been my go-to strategy for having done every unpleasant activity in my life that I've had to do, okay? Folding laundry, doing the dishes.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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but the really critical piece of the temptation bundling is that you have to forgo the indulgence of enjoying that rewarding activity in all other spaces of your life. So, for example, for me, I feel like a good pop song. I have, like, 25 really good listens, and then it kind of becomes old hat. So just, like, the excitement of the song wears off a bit. So there have been times where I'll be, like, cooking with my husband, and he's like, hey, why don't we play, you love Kasey Musgraves, why don't we play that album? And I'm like, no, that's an album I can only listen to when I'm, like, lifting weights.