Emily Balcetis: Setting and Achieving Goals

You can tell people just like I have you to focus their attention. Choose a target. Imagine there's a spotlight shining just on it. Don't pay much attention to what's in your periphery, almost as if you had like blinders on, right? So don't pay attention to those distractors. And when we taught people that narrowed style of attention, they moved 23% faster in this. course that we had set up. from the start line to the finish line, it was always exactly the same distance, and they said it hurt seventeen percent less. We are capable of changing our eyes that can change our psychology, that can change our performance, why not embrace this?

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