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.
Then, again, Gabriele Oettingen in my department has identified a third often overlooked or underappreciated stage that has to happen in the goal setting process, and that's thinking about the obstacles that stand in your way of success, and that, it will actually help improve motivation in the long run.
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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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I love that example because I think it helps sort of demystify or give us an alternative perspective on the importance and the motivational reasons why thinking about obstacles in advance, thinking about the ways, the two, three, four ways that your plan might go awry is actually effective at helping us to overcome the obstacle that might otherwise lead us to throw in the towel.
Then again, Gabriele Oettingen in my department has identified [clears throat] a third, often overlooked or under-appreciated stage that has to happen at that goal in the goal setting process. And that's thinking about the obstacles that stand in your way of success. And that it will actually help improve motivation in the long run.