Want To Improve Your Life? Tell A Whopper! | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement
Want To Improve Your Life? Tell A Whopper! | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement
Interesting article:
What’s even stranger is that, upon follow up, researchers found that students who had exaggerated their grades later improved those grades - often by exactly the amount they had exaggerated them in the study.
So what’s going on? According to the experts, exaggeration isn’t lying so much as it is, ‘… an exercise in projecting the self toward one’s goals,’ as Dr. Richard H. Gramzow puts it.
As the article points out, it seems that the old “act as if” or “fake it ’til you make it” strategies are just the way we are wired!
Do you exaggerate about goals you want to accomplish?
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