In today’s episode of the Passion Struck podcast, I sit down with Dr. Ayelet Fishbach to discuss her new book Get It Done as well as how to find the fun path to achieving a goal. | Brought to you by Indeed. Receive a $75 credit at: https://www.indeed.com/passionstruck.
Dr. Ayelet Fishbach is a behavioral science and marketing professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She was president of the Society for the Study of Motivation and continues to publish her insights into motivation research. Her work has appeared in journals such as Psychological Review and the Journal of Personality and has been publicized through media outlets including CNN, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and the New York Times.
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We have this fallacy where we think that our future self will be much more of a super human than our present self. So it’s often hard to plan because our plans suffer from what we refer to as the empathy gap-a lack of empathy for our future self.
Ayelet Fishbach
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What I Discuss With Ayelet Fishbach About The Science of Motivation And Her Book Get It Done
Many books have been written about influencing and motivating others but very little is documented on the science of motivating yourself. Dr. Ayelet Fishbach shares how you can set and achieve goals for yourself whether they are at home, at work, or in relationships and why it is harder than it may seem. We discuss how to know where to start, what to do to tackle obstacles, how to intentionally decide which tasks to focus on and how to get help from others to accomplish the goals.
- What Ayelet learned from being raised in an Israeli kibbutz and how it shaped who she is today.
- Advice on how to overcome chronic loneliness.
- The framework for goal mastery.
- How to set a goal.
- How to keep the momentum going.
- How to juggle and prioritize goals.
- How to use and help people in your life to reach your goals.
- The difference between Do versus Do not goals.
- What is suppression and why is it notoriously hard to do?
- What we can learn from the loss-aversion principle.
- Why incentives matter.
- Why human beings are wired to choose immediate gratification over benefits we have to wait to receive?
- Why intrinsic motivation is the best predictor of engagement.
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More From My Interview With Dr. Ayelet Fishbach On the Science of Motivation and the Cobra Effect
During our interview, I asked Dr. Ayelet Fishbach about the science of motivation and how it relates to intrinsic motivation. I asked her to explain through the story of how Vietnam handled its rat infestation problem.
Dr. Fishbach explains, “I love that story. This is the story of the Cobra Effect. It started in Hanoi, when French colonists were trying to get rid of the rats that were running around the streets. And they had a real problem with that too many rats, probably due to the newest sewage system that they installed. And so they came up with a clever bounty system, they would pay one cent per rate, which killed specifically they were paying one cent per rate tail of what was supposed to be a dead rat.
They thought that the program was successful because initially, they were getting a ton of dead rat tails. What they realized very soon is there are actually more, not fewer rats running the streets. And what they then realized is that they were paying people for rats, they were paying for tails. How do you get the tail of a rat? Well, you need to have a rat. And so people of Vietnam were breeding rats. They were creating more rats so they can get the money. And it’s such a nice example of how incentives can backfire. How incentives can get exactly the opposite effect of what you are hoping to get.
I mentioned it’s called the Cobra Effect because some years later, they tried to get rid of cobras in India by introducing a similar bounty program. And guess what, if you’re getting paid to bring in a dead Cobra, you should have a live Cobra first. So you’re incentivizing people to have to bread their cobras. But let me also add that this does not mean that incentives don’t work incentives work very well incentives can get people to read rats, which is not something that anybody would ever do unless they’re incentivized to do.
This means that you should be very careful with presenting incentives because you don’t always know what kind of behavior you’re incentivizing.”
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* Website: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/f/ayelet-fishbach
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayelet-fishbach-b32a8b4/
* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ayeletfishbach/
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/ayeletfishbach
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* My interview with Dr. Katy Milkman on the behavior science behind how we change: https://passionstruck.com/katy-milkman-behavior-change-for-good/
* My interview with Dr. Michael Slepian on understanding the science behind secrets: https://passionstruck.com/michael-slepian-the-secret-life-of-secrets/
* My interview with Dr. Valiere Young on how to overcome imposter syndrome: https://passionstruck.com/dr-valerie-young-on-combating-imposter-syndrome/
* My interview with Dr. Kara Fitzgerald on how to reduce your bio age and increase your lifespan: https://passionstruck.com/dr-kara-fitzgerald-become-younger-you/
* My solo episode on why micro choices matter: https://passionstruck.com/why-your-micro-choices-determine-your-life/
* My solo episode on why you must feel to heal: https://passionstruck.com/why-you-must-feel-to-find-emotional-healing/
About Todayโs Guest Ayelet Fishbach
Ayelet Fishbach, Ph.D., is the Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and the author of GET IT DONE: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation. She is the past president of the Society for the Science of Motivation and the International Social Cognition Network. She is an expert on motivation and decision-making.
Dr. Fishbachโs groundbreaking research on human motivation has won the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s Best Dissertation Award and Career Trajectory Award, and the Fulbright Educational Foundation Award.
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