David Disalvo offers up his top 10 psychology studies of 2009. Looks a little bit like a rapid regurgitation of 59 seconds by Richard Wiseman. There’s the “money illusion”, the habituation blues and the moral self-regulation see saw.
Also rather excellent is Wiseman’s 59 seconds in 59 seconds - essential stuff. For those of you with Amazon xmas vouchers left over you might want to grab a copy here – it’s now reduced to just £6.
who’s listening to this?
Visualizing the steps as opposed to the end result definitely increases the plausibility of the goal and so makes the brain ‘wake up’ and think ‘oh – I could actually do this!’.
However – this would be all completely useless if you don’t actually WANT the goal. I could visualize the steps to being a doctor, but being a doctor does not inspire me. It’d have been better if Richard mentioned this very basic idea, else people are going to wander around visualizing the steps and wondering why they aren’t motivated: they are doing something because ‘they think they should’ as opposed to a heartfelt want and desire for the goal.
That’s cool. I recognise some of those techniques in my life today…I probably wouldn’t have been able to describe why I do them without watching this clip.
Happy New Year!