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#154 Emily Balcetis: Setting and Achieving Goals

2022/12/13
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Emily Balcetis: 本期节目深入探讨了人们对世界的感知如何影响他们的动机和人生目标。研究表明，改变注意力方式可以改变心理和表现，集中注意力，选择目标，忽略干扰因素，可以提高效率和减少痛苦。通过对优秀运动员的研究，发现他们会采用一种高度集中的注意力方式，忽略周边信息，这可以提高运动速度和降低运动的痛苦感。此外，研究还发现，体重较重的人会感知到更远的距离，但动机可以补偿这种影响。动机可以改变视觉体验，使目标看起来更近，从而提高运动表现。在目标的不同阶段，注意力焦点应该有所调整，以保持动力。对于那些已经对目标充满热情的人来说，关注终点线可以激发动力；而对于那些缺乏热情的人来说，关注已经取得的进展则更有助于保持动力。在设定目标时，应该避免设定过于宏大的目标，而应该将目标分解成更小的、更容易实现的子目标，这可以改变我们对目标难度的认知，增强我们的信心和动力。在规划目标时，应该预想可能遇到的障碍，并制定相应的应对策略，这可以帮助我们更好地应对挑战，并最终实现目标。 Shane Parrish: 本期节目主要探讨了感知差距对目标设定和完成的影响。感知差距是指我们所看到的事物与事物本身之间的差异。理解感知差距可以帮助我们更好地取得成果。目标与现状的差距大小会影响我们开始和坚持的动力，需要找到合适的平衡点。在追求目标的过程中，应该注意调整注意力焦点，并根据目标的不同阶段选择合适的策略。

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Emily Balcetis discusses how our perception of the world affects our motivation and ability to achieve our goals, emphasizing the importance of focusing our attention.

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Social psychologist Emily Balcetis has devoted her career to understanding how people’s perceptions of the world fuel their motivations and life goals. In this episode she goes in-depth on that wealth of research, what she’s learned from studying some of the world’s most successful people and how they set goals, and how you can get better results in life if you change the way you see the world and where you place your focus.   Balcetis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University (NYU), focused on how the motivations, emotions, needs, and goals people hold impact the basic ways people perceive, interpret, and ultimately react to information around them. She is also the author of the book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World), which was released in 2020. ** --**
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