Title:
Get it done : surprising lessons from the science of motivation
Author:
Fishbach, Ayelet, author.
ISBN:
9780316538343
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Part 1, Choose your goal. Goals aren't chores ; Put a number on it ; Incentives matter ; Intrinsic motivation (and why you should have more fun) -- Part II, Keep pulling. Progress increase motivation ; The glass half full and half empty ; The middle problem ; "You're wrong!": learning from negative feedback -- Part III, Competing goals. Goal juggling ; Self-control ; Patience -- Part IV, Social support. Pursuing goals in the presence of others ; Pursuing goals with others ; Goals make a happy relationship.
Abstract:
Based on research from the field of motivation science, this new framework for setting and achieving goals discusses how to attack the "middle problem," battle temptations, and use the help of others.
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