How can you keep moving when something is frustrating, painful, or boring? - Deepstash
How can you keep moving when something is frustrating, painful, or boring?

How can you keep moving when something is frustrating, painful, or boring?

One way of making it through the circumstances that are devised to compel you to give up is to form an alter ego that always leverages the opportunity.

This is called “the Batman Effect”- coined owing to Bruce Wayne’s continuous struggle to suppress obstacles being a mere mortal that refers to kids doing better in tasks if they simulate some other character who is majorly successful in those tasks.

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The Batman Effect is an active cognitive strategy that moves us forward with confidence as we stay in a stressful situation but with our alter-ego leading the charge.

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