The Scientific Method to Achieve Your Goals - Prof. Gabriele Oettingen - #45
Gabriele Oettingen is a professor of psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg who has spent decades studying motivation and the science of goal setting.
Her research shows that simply fantasizing about a positive future can quietly drain the energy needed to achieve it, a finding she has replicated across health, work, relationships, and school.
Out of that work she developed mental contrasting, a technique that pairs a vivid image of the future with an honest look at the obstacle standing in the way. She turned it into a simple, science-backed four-step method called…
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