731: How to Harness Motivation…According to Science with Ayelet Fishbach

Ayelet Fishbach reveals insights into motivation to help you achieve your goals.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) The top variable for motivation  2) How to find motivation when you’re just not feeling it  3) How to make incentives really work  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep731 for clickable versions of the links below.  — ABOUT AYELET —  Ayelet Fishbach is a psychologist and a professor at the University of Chicago. She’s the past president of the Society for the Study of Motivation. She is an expert on motivation and decision making and the author of Get it Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation. Ayelet’s groundbreaking research on human motivation has won her several international awards, including the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s Best Dissertation Award and Career Trajectory Award, and the Fulbright Educational Foundation Award.  • Book: "Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation"  • Website: AyeletFishbach.com  — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —  • App: RepCount  • Book: "How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be" by Katy Milkman  • Book: "The Lying Life of Adults: A Novel" by Elena Ferrante  • Past episode: 665: How to Make Lasting Change – According to Science – with Katy Milkman  • Past episode: 727: How to Start Something New and See it Through with Michael Bungay Stanier  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.