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"Will We Succeed? The Science of Self-Motivation ScienceDaily (May 27, 2010) — Can you help you? Recent research by University of Illinois Professor Dolores Albarracin and Visiting Assistant Professor Ibrahim Senay, along with Kenji Noguchi, Assistant Professor at Southern Mississippi University, has shown that those who ask themselves whether they will perform a task generally do better than those who tell themselves that they will. See Also: Mind & Brain Behavior Intelligence Language Acquisition Child Development Social Psychology Psychology Reference Attribution theory Procrastination Cognitive dissonance Erikson's stages of psychosocial development Little research exists in the area of self-talk, although we are aware of an inner voice in ourselves and in literature. From children's books like "The Little Engine That Could," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... in which the title character says, "I think I can," to Holden Caulfield's misanthropic musings in "A Catcher in the Rye," internal dialogue often influences the way people motivate and shape their own behavior. But was "The Little Engine" using the best motivational tool, or does "Bob the Builder" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... have the right idea when he asks, "Can we fix it?" Albarracin's team tested this kind of motivation in 50 study participants, encouraging them explicitly to either spend a minute wondering whether they would complete a task or telling themselves they would. The participants showed more success on an anagram task, rearranging set words to create different words, when they asked themselves whether they would complete it than when they told themselves they would. Further experimentation had students in a seemingly unrelated task simply write two ostensibly unrelated sentences, either "I Will" or "Will I," and then work on the same task. Participants did better when they wrote, "Will" followed by "I" even though they had no idea that the word writing related to the anagram task. Why does this happen? Professor Albarracin's team suspected that it was related to an unconscious formation of the question "Will I" and its effects on motivation. By asking themselves a question, people were more likely to build their own motivation. In a follow-up experiment, participants were once again parsed into the "I will" and "Will I" categories, but this time were then asked how much they intended to exercise in the following week. They were also made to fill out a psychological scale meant to measure intrinsic motivation. The results of this experiment showed that participants not only did better as a result of the question, but that asking themselves a question did indeed increase their intrinsic motivation. These findings are likely to have implications in cognitive, social, clinical, health and developmental psychology, as well as in clinical, educational and work settings. "We are turning our attention to the scientific study of how language affects self-regulation," Professor Albarracin said. "Experimental methods are allowing us to investigate people's inner speech, of both the explicit and implicit variety, and how what they say to themselves shapes the course of their behaviors." Research like this challenges traditional paradigms regarding public service messages and self-help literature designed to motivate people toward healthier or more productive behavior. "The popular idea is that self-affirmations enhance people's ability to meet their goals," Professor Albarracin said. "It seems, however, that when it comes to performing a specific behavior, asking questions is a more promising way of achieving your objectives." The trio published its research, supported by the National Institutes of Health, in the April 2010 edition of the journal Psychological Science. "This work represents a basic cognitive approach to how language provides a window between thoughts and action," said Dr. James W. Pennebaker, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas. "The reason it is so interesting is that it shows that by using language analysis, we can see that social cognitive ideas are relevant to objective real world behaviors and that the ways people talk about their behavior can predict future action."" , 8 -13 sort http://www.theatlantic.com/enterta... - Thomas Page

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How to Do the Ultimate Brain Dump http://www.lifehack.org/article... the first thing you have to do is get it all out of your head and capture it somewhere. Your brain is not meant to hold all of the stuff you have (or want) to do and keeping it all up in there will only serve to disappoint you in both the short and long term. , 3 -24 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.mayoclinic.com/health... http://www.nytimes.com/2012... http://mindhacks.com/2012... , 7 -9 resilience ( 4 types ? Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life http://www.ted.com/talks... ) link ? resolve - resilience , Superbetter ? ... http://www.ted.com/speaker... http://www.iftf.org/user/46 https://www.superbetter.com/ https://www.google.com/search... , - Thomas Page

Helmet fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Helmet fire is a mental state characterized by unnaturally high stress and task-saturation and loss of situational awareness. The term originates in the military where pilots wear helmets to protect their head and to muffle noise. ,Task-Saturation , Situational Awareness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 6 -12 choking http://www.bakadesuyo.com/are-the... , 4 -10 http://gizmodo.com/260482... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 7 -10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Meta cognition Language Analysis ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ? 6 -12 frustration tolerance - prevention doh! 7 -10 Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by such effects as irritation and distraction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... from one's conscious thinking. It can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger. The property of being easily annoyed is called irritability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Sort bdi bd motivation loops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , intention clarification ? Intent - motive ? < wrong track? I Will" or "Will I," ? I am < form of to be ? [[[ E - Prime would fit how? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Toward understanding E-prime http://www.nobeliefs.com/eprime... , web-based e-Prime inspector http://www.manifestation.com/neuroto... , Copula (linguistics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 6 -7 Signals (Intention clarification?) 6 -9 bdi [ sort I will - will I ? ] [({{ The E-Prime versions communicate the speaker's experience rather than judgment, making it harder for the writer or reader to confuse opinion with fact. Experience Facts Volition Justification ? INTJ ? Choice for or demand of self? Edit > By who self a self b or what entity of self ? Bicameral vestiges? Vaal? Ideology obedience trumpage? Free Will ? Human Doing or Human Being? Tasks and Roles vs who you are? Parts or Whole? Holistic ? Any of parts can recreate the whole? I or I am ? Identity - Intention ? Roles have goals ? Agency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ? 6 -12 http://www.hilgart.org/papers_... - Thomas Page

GTD ipg 6-23 The Dude Abides ? Sort Manuevers... [ Event OODA ? [[ 1 -27 To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?” [[[ https://www.facebook.com/artofma... http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014... Boyd > When he had gotten to the crossroad where institutional success and doing the right thing diverge, he chose to do what was right. It was a philosophy he would espouse to his Acolytes (a group of his mentees) as they weighed whether to work for him and help do something important, but have their careers retarded for the association, or to keep their nose down and work their way up the ranks. “Tiger,” he would say, “one day you will come to a fork in the road:” “And you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go.” He raised his hand and pointed. “If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments.” Then Boyd raised his other hand and pointed another direction. “Or you can go that way and you can do something — something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. If you decide you want to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won’t have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?” [[ http://www.defense.gov/speeche... [[[ Patterns_of_Conflict http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.ausairpower.net/JRB... - Thomas Page

Task ... 6 -11 sort Agency? In artificial intelligence, a procedural reasoning system (PRS) is a framework for constructing real-time reasoning systems that can perform complex tasks in dynamic environments. It is based on the notion of a rational agent or intelligent agent using the BDI belief–desire–intention software model. A user application is predominately defined, and provided to a PRS system is a set of knowledge areas. Each knowledge area is a piece of procedural knowledge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... that specifies how to do something, e.g., how to navigate down a corridor, or how to plan a path (in contrast with robotic architectures where the programmer just provides a model of what the states of the world are and how the agent's primitive actions affect them). Such a program, together with a PRS interpreter, is used to control the agent. The interpreter is responsible for maintaining beliefs about the world state, choosing which goals to attempt to achieve next, and choosing which knowledge area to apply in the current situation. How exactly these operations are performed might depend on domain-specific meta-level knowledge areas. Unlike traditional AI planning systems that generate a complete plan at the beginning, and replan if unexpected things happen, PRS interleaves planning and doing actions in the world. At any point, the system might only have a partially specified plan for the future. PRS is based on the BDI or belief–desire–intention framework for intelligent agents. Beliefs consist of what the agent believes to be true about the current state of the world, desires consist of the agent's goals, and intentions consist of the agent's current plans for achieving those goals. Furthermore, each of these three components is typically explicitly represented somewhere within the memory of the PRS agent at runtime, which is in contrast to purely reactive systems, such as the subsumption architecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 10 -24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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Technological self-efficacy (TSE) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is “the belief in one’s ability to successfully perform a technologically sophisticated new task”.[1] This is a specific application of the broader and more general construct of self-efficacy, which is defined as the belief in one’s ability to engage in specific actions that result in desired outcomes.[2] Self efficacy does not focus on the skills one has, but rather the judgments of what one can do with his or her skills. Traditionally, a distinguishing feature of self efficacy is its domain-specificity. In other words, judgments are limited to certain types of performances as compared to an overall evaluation of his or her potential. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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