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The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Goals
- Amygdala - Like all brain regions, the amygdala does many things, but you’ll usually hear it associated with fear and negative emotion. When it comes to goal pursuit, the amygdala appears to act as an emotional calculator—predicting how rewarding or unpleasant the outcome of different goals and tasks might be.
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- PART I - GOAL SETTING Y ou should set your goals so that you achieve them 85.13% of the time.
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- PART II - GOAL PURSUIT
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- Outsmart Your Obstacles Taking the time to identify potential obstacles ahead of time and then planning out how to defeat them can make you happier and more productive.
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- Orbitofrontal Cortex - The ability to understand the link between actions and outcomes is vital for identifying effective strategies, and to flexibly update and refine your strategy as you learn and get closer to your goal.
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- Bilateral Prefrontal Cortex - Like any good CEO, your BLPFC helps you make plans, think across different timescales, and override habitual behavior—essential functions for goal setting.
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- Assessing Value - When your brain is assessing value it is calculating the rewards and punishments associated with taking or avoiding a specific course of action and ultimately decides which actions are worth pursuing.
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- For certain goals and skills, knowing how to use the 85% rule to achieve an optimal rate of improvement is straightforward. It’s working at a level of challenge where 85% of your code is clean, 85% of your darts, pucks, and balls hit their targets, and perhaps you get one word wrong in every sentence of a new language.
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- Basal Ganglia - One job is to generate “GO” actions: Get out of bed. Go for a run. Say hello to the cute stranger. Start writing. Go, do, act. Job #2 is about “NO GO.” Most goals also require you to NOT do certain things—to resist or suppress action. Stop eating the cookies. Do not open TikTok. Resist calling your colleague a moron.
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