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Seeing your goals differently
Affective forecasting is forcing you to view your goals through the lens of what you really want, what will make you happy, and how achieving those goals will make you feel.
It’s a practice that helps you confront peer pressure, other people’s expectations and learned behaviors.
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Affective forecasting
It refers to how we predict our future emotions and how certain life events will affect them.
We’re generally pretty bad at it—and that impacts our productivity, our goal setting, and our overall happiness
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“Our ability to look into the future and think about what will make us most happy is the way that we get to a present that pleases us.”
DANIEL GILBERT
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3 ways to set rewarding goals
- Understand the things that stand between your present self and your future self. That includes those natural biases, but it also includes situations and events you just can’t predict.
- Use mindfulness to get in touch with your emotions, to recognize and understand them, ...
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We're bad at predicting our feelings
The main barriers to accurate affective forecasting:
- Impact Bias: Your tendency to overestimate the intensity and duration of future emotions.
- Projection Bias: However you feel in the present, you tend to project that onto the future.
- Focalism: Wh...
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Walk your own path
People like to judge other people.
This peer pressure can make you stray from the path you started to carve for your future. Don’t mind other people’s aspirations, don’t ever let someone else’s goals and dreams influence your vision of life.
It’s your path ...
Follow through on your goals
Goals give you purpose and motivation to live through each day doing what it is that will make you happy.
There is nothing quite like setting a goal and successfully following through on it. In fact, this is one of the main confidence-building methods recommended for those who are trying to...
Problems with goals
- Problem-1: Winners and losers have the same goals, if having really ambitious goals was the only thing then everybody would have won the 100m Olympic race
- Problem-2: Achieving a goal is just a momentary change but having good habits are a lifetime achievement
- Problem#3 → Goa...
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