Everyone knows the problem: In January we register enthusiastically and with good intentions in the fitness studio, in the middle of the year it looks different again. Why do we reach ours Set Not?
- Laziness or hyperbolic tee?
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- Tee instead of instant gratification
- Satisfaction with addictive potential
- Anticipation is important for personality development
- First the work, then the reward
- Greed prevents wise decisions
- Our business system is based on instant gratification
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Laziness or hyperbolic tee?
The online edition of the American magazine The Atlantic reported earlier this year on the phenomenon of the seasonally increasing and decreasing flow of visitors in fitness studios - and the lessening of enthusiasm in the summer.
“You would this Behavior maybe call it 'laziness'. Economists prefer that Term 'hyperbolic drive',” according to Derek Thompson in The Atlantic.
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At the latest when the weather improves and our stomach does not get smaller to the extent that we had imagined our new dream figure, the reward for all our efforts on treadmills and steppers, the enthusiasm wears off noticeably. Idleness? Rather not!
The theory behind this is that humans are relative light can motivate when an immediate gratification beckons, but rewards in the future Future considered less attractive. And further Thompson:
“The hyperbolic markdown helps explain why Parliament doesn't make savings decisions, why drug addicts stay addicted, why debtors don't pay their bills, and why we always tell ourselves that the best day for our sports program is 'tomorrow'. ”
Tee instead of instant gratification
So if we can't have something right away, we feel like we have to take a 'discount'. Unfortunately, this also applies when it comes to our well-being and ours Health works, as in the case of going to the gym.
But is it so bad if we don't want to wait? After all, we have outgrown childhood and supposedly know what is good for us. Our living conditions also usually make it easier for us to promptly satisfy our needs needs.
Satisfaction with addictive potential
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And when we have “got our immediate gratification behind us”, we ultimately saved time and can thus turn to other things productively. Or?
The stupid thing about the quick bonus is, among other things, that we are very fast get used to the feeling of reward. So, similar to drug use, we need to give ourselves the next dose even sooner, and preferably even larger, by one Effect to achieve.
Anticipation is important for personality development
And actually, we also know that the moment of fulfilling a wish is usually less spectacular than waiting for it. In the search for immediate gratification, there is also the danger that a stale feeling will remain when we deprive ourselves of the time of joyful expectation.
Science assumes that anticipation is important for our well-being and even for personality formation. It is clear that anyone who is allowed to experience anticipation is more satisfied and more positive.
First the work, then the reward
Those who find it easier to get up because they have something to look forward to prefer to go to work and also do unwelcome ones Tasks with more enthusiasm. Till Raether, editor at Zeit-Magazin, describes the function of anticipation as follows:
"Our Brain feeds on anticipation. It serves him all sorts of things positive train skills. (...) Possibly we train the reward areas in the brain through our ability to feel anticipation: those who are looking forward learn to experience joy more intensely overall. There are neuroscientists who suggest that there is a connection between the ability to feel anticipation and general confidence in life."
Greed prevents wise decisions
Last but not least, we all know that “right now” greed limits our ability to make rational and wise decisions. In the heat of battle to plan not for the future, but actually not at all.
In this way mistakes are made, which sometimes cost us a lot.
Our business system is based on instant gratification
Sure, a significant part of our economic system is based on instant gratification. If they didn't exist, there wouldn't be much with credit cards and financing offers Money close.
But maybe we would do well from time to time to let the child in us wait a bit and give the anticipation a chance. It can teach us to become smarter and keep motivating ourselves. And last but not least, she can do a lot for us Fun bring.
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Barbara Haag is a management trainer and business coach. She runs the “kopfarbeit” consulting institute she founded and, together with a network of 30 trainers, supports specialists and executives throughout Germany. She worked for several years in personnel development at global companies in the automotive and oil processing industries and has been a trainer, consultant and coach for many years and had teaching assignments at vocational academies and the leadership academy in Baden-Württemberg.Barbara Haag is the originator of scientifically based personal development programs that have been implemented in numerous companies. In addition to the online potential tool aHead she developed, her work on motivational theory was also included in the guidebook “Authentic Career Planning”. More information at www.kopfarbeit.org 
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