Sublime

the person I mean to be is more than just a believer. The person I mean to be stands up for those values. The person I mean to be fights bias. Sometimes, I do. Sometimes, I don’t. Sometimes, I want to, but don’t know where to start. Sometimes, I don’t notice bias and am surprised or defensive when others point it out. Sometimes, I—the one who studi

found that people were more likely to fulfill their goals if they had made explicit “implementation intentions.”

“Self-efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioral Change.”

It turned out pre-commitment was strikingly successful—resolving clearly to do something, and making a pledge that they’d stick to it, made the men significantly better at holding out.

Studies on highly successful people have proven again and again that success is not the result of strong willpower and the ability to overcome resistance, but rather the result of smart working environments that avoid resistance in the first place (cf. Neal et al. 2012; Painter et al. 2002; Hearn et al. 1998).

The happiest and most successful people are those who have figured out ways to exploit their Tendency to their benefit and, just as important, found ways to counterbalance its limitations.

The coach effect captures how we can marshal motivation by offering the encouragement to others that we need for ourselves.

The results were clear: high-IQ individuals in general cooperated more in these games, and IQ mattered the most in games where there were trade-offs between short-run goals and longer-run considerations. The researchers put it this way: in this situation, “intelligence matters substantially more in the long run than other factors and personality tr