Due to the way we evolved, we prioritize short-term rewards over long-term benefits, making long-term gratification through difficult momentary action harder to enforce as a habit.This is especially true today, where we can find instant gratification everywhere we look, making it incredibly easy to fall prey to it and forget about our long-term goals.

Why Your Habits Never Stick

Pursuing our goals in ways that are fun, rather than more efficient, we persist longer and we are more likely to succeed.For example, if you have a show you love watching and you only allow yourself to do it during a cardio session on the treadmill, you will start looking forward to that session.Finding a way to make your habits more rewarding in the present moment will make you more likely to come back to them.

Leveraging Present Bias

Empirical studies show that people who build consistency in their routines end up really rigid, meaning that if they miss their narrow window of action they tend to skip it.On the other hand, those who build variability into their routines end up being more flexible, making them more likely to take action repeatedly and have their habits stick.Aim for frequent & flexible.

Variability Over Consistency

We understand it's hard to build a habit, we realize there are challenges to overcome, but we don't take the time to come up with the right strategy."What stops me from doing this now? What stopped me before?"Once we understand our personal barriers holding us from achieving our goals, we are going to be more capable of choosing the right tools to use.

#1 Habit-Building Mistake: Not Thinking Carefully About the Obstacles

The key difference between those who succeed in building a habit and those who don't is the ability to shake off the losses and start again.

The Key Difference Between Failing and Succeeding in Building a Habit

Habit building is an important aspect of personal development. We need to understand the roadblocks to building better habits if we want to design the tools to help people overcome them.

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Why your habits never stick

<ul><li>Curiosity across disciplines, most of which are outside your profession.</li><li>A well-calibrated sense of your future regret.</li><li>The ability to endure risk vs. assuming you can avoid it.</li><li>Respecting luck as much as you respect risk.</li><li>The willingness to adapt views you wish were permanent.</li></ul>

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<ul><li>Low susceptibility to FOMO.</li><li>A sensitive bullshit detector.</li><li>Valuing your independence over someone else’s priorities.</li><li>Respecting history more than forecasts.</li><li>Respecting the difference between rosy optimism and periods of chaos that trend upward.</li></ul>

Some useful traits... 2/4

<ul><li>Quitting while you’re ahead before you’ve exhausted or outgrown what made you successful.</li><li>Outperforming by merely “doing the average thing when everyone else around you is losing their mind.”</li><li>Thinking in probabilities vs. certainties, including the idea that a good decision can result in a bad outcome and vice versa.</li><li>Acknowledging that some things are unknowable and not fooling yourself into thinking you can figure them out.</li><li>Identifying what game you’re playing and not being persuaded by people playing different games.</li></ul>

Some useful traits... 3/4

<ul><li>Expecting the ridiculous and absurd vs. assuming the world is always governed by rational decisions.</li><li>Accepting some inefficiency and hassle without losing your cool.</li><li>Knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.</li><li>Deserving the good reputation you have.</li><li>Getting along with people you disagree with.</li></ul>

Some useful traits... 4/4

A few pointers to keep in mind - they may be a quick read, but let them sink in.

Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator, says he doesn’t have any extraordinary skills. He’s a pretty good artist. He’s kind of funny, an OK writer, and decent at business. But multiply those mediocre skills together and you get one of the most successful cartoonists of all time. A lot of things work like that. A couple ordinary things you don’t notice on their own create something spectacular when they mix together at the right time. One of the big leaps forward for humanity is when we mixed copper, which is soft, with tin, which is like paper, and created bronze, which is hard and made great tools and weapons. It was like two plus one equals ten. Same with the weather. A little cool air from the north is no big deal. A little warm breeze from the south is pleasant. But when they mix together over Missouri you get a tornado. Same with people. It’s tempting to want to find the one big skill that will set you apart. But most incredible things come from compounding, and compounding isn’t intuitive because the incremental inputs are never exciting on their own. A few little things that are easy to ignore yet work wonders when combined together: Curiosity across disciplines, most of which are outside your profession. A well-calibrated sense of your future regret. The ability to endure risk vs. assuming you can avoid it. Respecting luck as much as you respect risk. The willingness to adapt views you wish were permanent. Low susceptibility to FOMO. A sensitive bullshit detector. Valuing your independence over someone else’s priorities. Respecting history more than forecasts. Respecting the difference between rosy optimism and periods of chaos that trend upward. Quitting while you’re ahead before you’ve exhausted or outgrown what made you successful. Outperforming by merely “doing the average thing when everyone else around you is losing their mind.” Thinking in probabilities vs. certainties, including the idea that a good decision can result in a bad outcome and vice versa. Acknowledging that some things are unknowable and not fooling yourself into thinking you can figure them out. Identifying what game you’re playing and not being persuaded by people playing different games. Expecting the ridiculous and absurd vs. assuming the world is always governed by rational decisions. Accepting some inefficiency and hassle without losing your cool. Knowing the long-term consequences of your actions. Deserving the good reputation you have. Getting along with people you disagree with. None of these are too exciting, but maybe that’s the point: Most things that look like superpowers are just a bunch of ordinary skills mixed together at the right time.

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The Give and Take, Take, Take: give a little something to get something bigger and better in return, later, as people feel obliged to return initial favors.The Rejection-Then-Retreat tactic is used to convince people to accept an offer by first making a much more outrageous one, which they refuse, feeling emotionally compelled to accept the second, more reasonable one.

Reciprocation

People want to appear consistent in their actions, but “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”The “low-ball” and “foot-in-the-door” techniques are used to get us to spend more by making us agree to an initially reasonable deal, followed by slowly spiking up the prices. Our subconscious desire of consistency pushes us to see the deal through, even though the price has risen to something we would not have initially accepted.

Commitment and Consistency

Safety in numbers: argumentum ad populum, social proof, or our belief that what the masses are doing must be correct and what we should be doing, too.This is true especially when uncertainty is at play. We are more inclined to follow the lead of a similar individual to us more so than a dissimilar one. The “Werther” effect describes the influence the behavior of others has on us.

Social Proof

Accessories that suggest authority (i.e. ‘Dr.’ titles, business suits) exploit our tendency to believe those in the know, even when such titles hold little to no real value.“Experts say” is a phrase we’ve heard way too often in advertising campaign, and for good reason: it works; people do not question the status quo and the decisions of those of higher rank. The sense of duty to authority is underlined by the Milgram experiment.

Authority

As much as we may deny it, physical attractiveness plays a huge role in people liking us. Flattery works to get compliance, and we are biased to accept requests from those we fancy. We think favorably of those who dress like us, or who share our passions. This works the other way around, too: guilt by association.“The nature of bad news infects the teller”, as Shakespeare once said. The luncheon technique is often applied to persuade, and we must be on the lookout for a sense of undue liking towards a compliance practitioner.

Liking

Our decisions are shaped more by how much we could lose than by how much we could gain. We value limited information and we are more affected by a drop from abundance to scarcity than scarcity in and of itself.It is more dangerous to give people freedoms for a while, then take them away, than not to give them at all. Our joy comes not from experiencing a scarce commodity, but from possessing it.

Scarcity

The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion—a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold—now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications. In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdini—New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion—explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically in business and everyday settings. Using memorable stories and relatable examples, Cialdini makes this crucially important subject surprisingly easy. With Cialdini as a guide, you don’t have to be a scientist to learn how to use this science. You’ll learn Cialdini’s Universal Principles of Influence, including new research and new uses so you can become an even more skilled persuader—and just as importantly, you’ll learn how to defend yourself against unethical influence attempts. You may think you know these principles, but without understanding their intricacies, you may be ceding their power to someone else. Cialdini’s Principles of Persuasion: Reciprocation Commitment and Consistency Social Proof Liking Authority Scarcity Unity, the newest principle for this edition Understanding and applying the principles ethically is cost-free and deceptively easy. Backed by Dr. Cialdini’s 35 years of evidence-based, peer-reviewed scientific research—including a three-year field study on what leads people to change—Influence is a comprehensive guide to using these principles to move others in your direction.

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Retail therapy is the process of trying to cheer yourself up by buying yourself gifts or treats. It’s both an intentional and an impulsive action and it gets triggered when we are sad or depressed.The self-regulation theory says that you are constantly trying to balance your emotions, so if your feeling of sadness can be offset by giving in to an impulse purchase, you may decide to do it.Studies show that while it does work with cheering people up, it may not work with stronger emotions, such as anger, or loneliness.

Retail Therapy - What Is It And Does It Work?

Emotions like sadness can be associated with the sense of lacking control, so we try to regain control by making intentional choices, like where to shop and what to buy. So, the important part of the process is the act of making a choice.

Why Does Retail Therapy Work?

Despite the fact that impulsive purchases sound like a bad financial decision, it seems like when people are buying things to cheer themselves up, they are not usually overspending. One study showed that those spending money to help themselves feel better spend less than those spending money to celebrate something.Furthermore, it’s possible that we’re not feeling buyer’s remorse, as we feel like we deserve a treat, like we earned it, not like we are mindlessly spending money.

Any Downsides to Retail Therapy?

After a bad day, you might feel like you deserve a treat and order that pair of shoes you've had your eye on. But psychologists have wondered if that impulse purchase can end up leaving you feeling more unfulfilled than happy. Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow Psych by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowPsych SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Become a Patron and have your name featured in the description of every SciShow Psych episode! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowPsych ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-why-behind-the-buy/201305/why-retail-therapy-works https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mar.20404?casa_token=Q8iJCWsiuhMAAAAA%3ADoIdBqz93z-LOCvefahqopsxFABbOUI7yHert-wiDDwGIi37YmSlmI6o6uu-1M0RIW2KOZLEmPOw-M5B https://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/v38/acr_v38_15786.pdf https://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/ap07/12975.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1057740813001149?casa_token=S9L42QQ-N5sAAAAA:LQ7PEaqCgYn8eSzdiFrf8O8hsw2v33THs-dAdgc30lylGlyWb0Mudjxh0DoKbzRVVo-DfI6Fsg https://web2-bschool.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/media_rp/publications/gnDja1441015005.pdf https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=buwell https://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/1009733/volumes/v39/NA-39 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11469-013-9449-y.pdf Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/overhead-angle-on-the-table-in-a-high-end-restaurant-used-as-co-working-space-gm1312447691-401252560 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/woman-shopping-footwears-online-on-laptop-gm958336042-261683714 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-senior-latino-man-shopping-in-a-grocery-store-choosing-sweets-gm1146551772-308980066 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/think-its-time-for-a-change-gm1266704391-371406815 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/asian-chinese-young-couple-arm-raised-sitting-on-inflatable-swimming-float-unicorn-gm1285602715-382378147 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cinema-series-weeping-gm91087356-2882433 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man-holding-bicycle-at-the-beach-showing-thumbs-up-finger-gm1279040186-377776270 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/exhausting-shopping-gm1082995504-290527939 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/shopping-for-christmas-gm1090959116-292655211 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/family-at-an-ice-cream-shop-gm508189536-85119747 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/portrait-of-young-woman-with-big-eyes-staring-in-amazing-at-her-bill-at-shopping-gm1087204676-291687514 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/electronic-banking-gm1135776151-302272904 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/look-at-these-prices-ive-got-to-get-more-gm1210531200-350724373 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/happy-girl-shopping-in-the-fashion-store-gm863190232-143239033 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/medical-illustrate-gm484757150-71487927

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Your Brain on Retail Therapy

A study has shown that those spending money on others - even strangers - reported feeling happier than those spending it on themselves.Most animals help those closely related - a process named kinship selection - but humans seem to be different, extending our generosity farther.The difference between animals and humans comes down to how we can pass down information. Whereas animals can only do it via genes, we can do it externally, too, through culture.

Helping Others Makes You Happier

Human beings are social animals, so they do a lot to take care of those close around them. For the vast majority of our history as a species, we lived in tight-knit groups, and we evolved wanting to help those around us. Those with the AVPR-1 gene more likely to be generous, indicating a biological link to such behavior.Furthermore, we built cultures around the idea of generosity, maybe as a way to suppress violence, but also because it is genuinely useful to us as a species.Generosity is thus a biological concept that’s culturally reinforced.

Why Are We Generous?

While natural selection may make us believe that selfish creatures may be favored, reality shows us it's quite the opposite. Bees protect their hives with their own lives, as do mother birds to defend their nests. And we, humans, among all, are the ones who collaborate the most.Why?The goal of life is to make more life. And wanting to collaborate helps the species thrive and procreate.

Collaboration Seems Counterintuitive

At a biological level, we are attracted to those individuals whose traits suggest to us they are likely to have good genes, hence provide healthy offspring.A peacock’s tail is a good example: by getting it to grow larger, it signifies its strength and dominion and it makes peahens think it’s got healthy genes.Across the world, generosity is the trait most commonly rated as attractive, hence suggesting that at a deep biological level, generosity would imply the ability to take care of offspring.

Generosity Is Attractive

Culture explains a lot (but not all) of what and why we do what we do. We can see how kindness is promoted across cultures:<ul><li>In Judaism, you are to give without anticipation of reward.</li><li>In Buddhism, to hurt someone else is to hurt oneself.</li><li>In Christianity, you are to love your neighbor.</li></ul>

Worldwide Cultures Teach People to Be Kind

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Why Are People So Kind?

Humans are a competitive species, comparing ourselves to others. In the age of the internet and early specialization, you can quickly feel left behind.Here’s how to fix that:<ol><li>Spend less time on social media or change the way you think about social media.</li><li>Practice gratitude journaling 3-4 times a week. Those who do it have reported feeling less envy, less stress and more happy.</li><li>Set intrinsic goals, spending time on what you enjoy or on what motivates or makes your curious.</li></ol>

3 Steps to Combat Feeling Behind

Social networks are like drugs, in the sense that they are the distilled version of a natural thing, in the way the information is framed.The Instagram feed is the distilled version of a person, presenting only their best and happiest moments, and not the real person.Seeing only these highly-curated lives can make you feel like your life is insufficient.If you can’t remove social media from your life, try social media platforms which promote educational content.

1. Spend Less Time on Social Media or Change Your Perspective

Mental health is on the decline. Two of the main factors are<ul><li>Increased feelings of loneliness;</li><li>Poor diet﻿.</li></ul>Studies show that those who practice gratitude journaling 3-4 times a week have reported feeling less envy, less stress and more happy than those who only wrote down how they felt.So grab a pen and start writing 5 things for which you feel grateful every day.

2. Practice Gratitude Journaling

People are less likely to do things because they want to achieve mastery or for pleasure (intrinsic goals), but rather because they present some sort of competitive advantage (extrinsic goals).This is what can lead to mental health issues.Instead, try to do the opposite: find goals that want to pursue out of curiosity, out of the desire to improve yourself, or just out of sheer pleasure and personal satisfaction.

3. Practice the Shift From Extrinsic to Intrinsic Goals

Humans beings, like other animals, are a competitive species. As a result, we compare ourselves to others.If for most of history you only knew about the nearest ~150 people, now you can easily find the ‘best’ people at anything online: billionaires, supermodels, so on.The academic arms race and the trend of promoting early development and success - wonderkin - can have a detrimental impact on motivation, as it becomes easy to be let down seeing how much more others may have achieved at your age.It’s easy to fall into the delusion of not being good enough. However, that shouldn’t be the case.

Why You Feel Left Behind - The Need to Get Ahead

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Why You Feel Behind in Life and How to Stop

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, encourages what he calls farming for dissent.Everyone is encouraged to have ideas and share them, but when you do have an idea, you should try to get your coworkers to tell you what is wrong with your idea - farm for dissent. For this to work, employees have to be candid about it.In trying to get as much negative feedback as possible you foreshadow potential failure. You are still allowed to pursue your idea even if met with skepticism, but this prevention step is essential.

Farming for Dissent

At Netflix, sharing that you have done something wrong is encouraged, and their process of doing so publicly is called sunshining.Sunshining implies standing in front of coworkers, executives and other team members and telling them about what you did badly, how you were wrong and so on.

Sunshining: Telling Everyone You’re Wrong

While Netflix claims a 10-11% employee turnover rate, similar to what can be seen across the tech industry, they have a culture of ‘if you are not the right person for the job, you will be replaced’.They treat their employees like a team, not a family.

The Keeper Test at Netflix

While most major companies try to hide their financials and other sensitive information, the whole in-the-hundreds pool of Netflix executives has access to subscriber reports and other crucial financial data.This transparency signifies trust in their employees and it encourages responsibility.

Transparency Means Responsibility 

‎Is working on a team of all-stars, excellent pay, and unlimited vacation worth the stress of constant criticism from co-workers and the knowledge that your boss is considering whether to replace you? Netflix execs will tell you that their internal culture is the key to their success.

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‎Land of the Giants: “Netflix is a team, not a family” on Apple Podcasts

As playwright David Mamet puts it,“[Storytelling] is not… the communication of ideas but rather the inculcation in the audience of the instincts of the hunt.”What keeps us engaged when consuming content is our brain’s constant desire and struggle to piece everything together to figure out what happens next, a phenomenon Robert McKee named “narrative drive”.This process lies at the heart of dramatic writing, being why you just can’t put a good book down and why you binge whole seasons in one go.

Narrative Drive: What Happens Next?

Dramatic irony is a literary device in which the audience knows something the characters of a story don’t.A story can create engagement by relying on narrative drive: making us curious about what happens next.However, if we know the ending, the author can make us wonder how the events unfold.This is pulled from the plays of ancient Greeks, who didn’t believe that knowing the ending of a story will spoil it. Most of their tragedies revolved around mythic heroes, whose fates were well-known.What makes these stories tick instead is dramatic irony. It’s about the journey, not the destination.

Dramatic Irony: Knowing What the Characters Don’t 

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Since National Geographic began making maps in 1915, it has recognized four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic Oceans. Starting on the World Oceans Day 2021 (June 8) it has also recognized the Southern Ocean as the world’s fifth ocean.&nbsp;It has long been recognized by scientists, but the lack of an international agreement kept the editors from formally adding it to the list.

National Geographic recognizes 5 oceans

The Southern Ocean has a few characteristics that make it stand out from the other 4 oceans:<ul><li>It’s the only ocean to touch three continents.</li><li>It completely embraces a continent (Antarctica) rather than be embraced by them.</li><li>It is surrounded by the formidably swift Antarctic Circumpolar Current (the ACC).</li></ul>

The peculiarities of the Southern Ocean

While the other oceans are defined by the continents that fence them in, the Southern Ocean is defined by a current: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), which surrounds it.The ACC flows from west to east around Antarctica. Inside the ACC, the waters are colder and slightly less salty than ocean waters to the north.Furthermore, the ACC helps keep Antarctica cold and the Southern Ocean ecologically distinct, with thousands of species living only there.

How the ACC defines the Southern Ocean

The ACC is estimated to have been established 34 million years ago, when Antarctica separated from South America. The ACC has a crucial impact on Earth’s climate: it transports more water than any other ocean current, helping drive a global circulation system known as the conveyor belt, which transports heat around the planet.﻿

The importance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

On World Oceans Day, Nat Geo cartographers say the swift current circling Antarctica keeps the waters there distinct and worthy of their own name: the Southern Ocean.

There’s a new ocean now—can you name all 5?

...is defined as "a bunch of like-minded creators who connect on a regular basis and support each other in reaching their content creation goals." - <a href="https://clementbourcart.medium.com/?source=post_page-----db4470bf8ad--------------------------------">Clément Bourcart</a>In Clément's opinion, belonging to such a group is important for leveling up you content creation as, to quote Darren Hardy:“According to research by social psychologist Dr. David McClelland of Harvard, [the people you habitually associate with] determine as much as 95 percent of your success or failure in life.”

A mastermind group for content creators...

﻿You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

How?<ul><li>Those in the group further along on the journey inspire you to keep growing, helping you with save time with constant tips and feedback.</li><li>Having multiple opinions helps improve your content in ways your own eyeballs alone wouldn't.</li><li>Supporting others, in turn, helps you sharpen your saw when it comes to your own work.</li></ul>

Your peer group shapes the quality of your work

<ol><li>Genuine connections: quality over quantity. Small but committed groups are better than large inactive ones.</li><li>Joint accountability: join a group where sharing is frequent. You’re 95% likely to reach your goal when you have an accountability partner with whom you engage on a regular basis.</li><li>A healthy mix of abilities, niches and styles: find a healthy balance of creators who are a few steps both ahead and behind of you.</li><li>Clear rules of engagement: ensure the group has a clear, defined purpose and structured means of communication.</li><li>A supportive culture: look for constructive criticism, given with care.</li></ol>

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Your Brain on Retail Therapy

Why Are People So Kind?

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