What small change in your life can make a big difference? 

go fast

the only reason i’m watching this is because of my essay due tommorow

that's great :D

nice! keep at it , this happens to me sometimes when i get too high lol!

+Hassan Nabil I second that!! This guy really explains things well, and packs a great deal of wisdom into his videos!!

Daniel Bundrick yeah :D

+endhalf Because they are used to see you fat. Brains don't like changes, they can't handle it.

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Give it a bit. We get to be here from the start and watch it get popular. It's only a matter of time.

How do you use them?

Rupert Schorn structured procrastination or ADHD medications

maybe a video on both would be nice please? two separate videos or you could combine it into one? thanks

maybe next week

NumberOne Rascal do have some research on this? Really want to learn more!

or meth. oh wait, you said natural. whoops!

+Tesla, That is a great question. While the initial success still makes this scheme worthwhile, it would be good to know whether if-then+coping still leads by so much in the long run.

if something i didnt think of happens then im gonna do my best to do it

+Arpit Agarwal I'm an ENTP/ENFP

+Jim Zheng ENFP haha

Intj here

+Lucy Bowman If it has melted chocolate on it I would have eaten it before anything was said.

+Gehenna71 same!

Lucy Bowman Ok, there will be a fight. While fighting someone else takes the brownie and that results in a massive fight where everybody kills each other and the brownie is left ;)

+Gehenna71 the brownie games... coming to a theater near you

ew its a mac

Rob It would be something like. If I wake up at 7am, I'll go for a run. If I am too tired to go for a run, I will only have to step outside wearing running gear.

Marco Mariveles ok so I guess it brings you one step closer to the goal right?

+M. Roest Can you elaborate on this? I've worked with trying to improve my habits and cope with depression through implementation intentions, but I often fail anyway. I keep my goals as small as they could reasonably be, I feel, and yet it's still insanely difficult to change my habits. I'm also totally a social perfectionist. And just a perfectionist more generally. In what way does this strategy backfire for people like me?

+Hannah Elisabeth that I wouldn't know unfortunately. This video just got me interested so I looked up the wikipedia page as a quick/dirty introduction to the topic since this video was very very optimized for a compelling presentation (which I love, it allows for very quick and effortless learning). I did think about it though but I find it hard to understand why. I will read the paper, since I'm a student and it's behind a paywall (I only read the abstract). Maybe the authors say something useful about it, if they don't, then I really wouldn't know. I'll update the answer later.

M. Roest Yeah, I tried looking it up, but with the article being behind a paywall I was unable to find any further info. Let me know what you find, 'cause I'm curious.

+Hannah Elisabeth I looked it up now. My writing can be quite terrible since I'm paraphrasing them in my own words quite quickly. Sorry about that, I'm a bit on a time budget (I also only read the introduction section and the discussion section of the paper). This is definitely not my best writing, I hope it's helpful though :) The authors have several possible clarifications. It has to be said that none of these clarifications have been studied yet. The only thing that they know is that social perfectionists happen to not respond well to implementation intentions (most of the time this is where research stops unfortunately). Some interesting facts before that they also wrote: - implementation intentions mainly help for *difficult* goals - they furthermore are of more help to people with *poor* self-regulatory skills or who are easily distracted (they give as examples: schizophrenics, drug addicts and frontal lobe patients) - compared to frontal lobe patients implementation intentions help less for students (I guess they still do help though, just less) - self-oriented perfectionists do respond well to this goal setting strategy :) The authors thought before the study that social perfectionists would elicit self-criticism when they'd formulate a goal implementation plan. In other words, they'd judge negatively about their plans in most cases. So what they believed was in the way is the self-denigrating self-scrutiny that social perfectionists have over their goals. In that sense, it's not really the social aspect but more a negative rumination that impedes goal progress. Self-criticism and hypervigilance are a bad combination indeed. In their own words this explanation is supported, and I quote: "The idea that self-critical self-evaluation and/or concern about the harsh judgment of others can impede socially prescribed perfectionists who try to make implementation plans, however, received support in Study 2. "* Another explanation is that social perfectionists have a propensity to see the idea of making an implementation intention as a form of control from other people. *Cited from: Powers, T. A., Koestner, R.,& Topciu, R. A. (2005). Implementation Intentions, Perfectionism, and Goal Progress: Perhaps the Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 31 (7): 902-912, doi:10.1177/0146167204272311

M. Roest Thank you! That's very interesting. I hope for more research in this area in the future. "implementation intentions mainly help for difficult goals" Well, what makes a goal difficult? (Not that I expect you to be able to answer that question.) I mean, the things I strive to do are objectively easy (like, take 15 minutes to meditate, or spend 15 minutes washing dishes), and yet, actually getting myself to stop procrastinating and avoiding and actually DO THE THINGS is extraordinarily difficult for me, though it seems like it shouldn't be. I don't know why it's such a challenge to do simple things, other than perhaps that I expect myself to fail and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy? "So what they believed was in the way is the self-denigrating self-scrutiny that social perfectionists have over their goals. In that sense, it's not really the social aspect but more a negative rumination that impedes goal progress. Self-criticism and hypervigilance are a bad combination indeed." Indeed! Welcome to my life. :-P Perhaps I should look into how to overcome social perfectionism. It's hard to feel a sense of owning one's own goals, since they inevitably feel like a way of filling a role or garnering social approval. It's hard to separate out what I want out of life from what kind of person I want or expect myself to be. I wonder if in these instances it comes back to an issue addressed by a different bite size psych video on how attempting to suppress negative thoughts backfires. Which really just makes me think the key to success is meditation. But what's the key to succeeding at actually getting myself to meditate regularly every day?

Depends on your willpower and your goals

Through My Eyes Especially doing sport becomes dangerous like this, but also reading stuff for work makes little sense. I went through such phases when my job put me to my breaking point.

edi the point isn't that it always works: when you set goals this way consistently you end up actually doing them more often, which means you achieve more. it also works better if you're regularly reviewing what you did and what the result was, and if your goal is to recover quickly when you miss rather than to never miss.

if you are tired then take a break and then go for it. lol

"If tired or having headache, then..."

He's an Australian of Chinese heritage.

I'm thinking it's South African, but I might be totally wrong.