STOP celebrating your goals if you want to achieve them.

About this episode

Angela Shurina discusses how delayed rewards can hinder goal achievement and explores habit formation principles from behavioral psychology and neuroscience.

Your biggest goals might be losing because your rewards arrive too late. If you have ever crushed a plan for a week, then slid back into old patterns, the issue is not that you are “lazy” or “not disciplined enough.” We are wired to repeat what feels good right now, and that wiring runs the show when you are trying to build consistent habits for long-term goals. I am Angela Shurina, and I break down a research-backed habit formation principle drawn from behavioral psychology and neuroscience...

People in this episode

Host: Angela Shurina

Topics covered

• goal achievement
• habit formation
• behavioral psychology
• neuroscience
• self-discipline

Keywords

• goals
• rewards
• habits
• behavioral psychology
• neuroscience
• self-improvement
• discipline

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