Ayelet Fishbach

20th century, as you can imagine, when several men pull a rope together, they invest less effort than when they do it by themselves.

And we see it in studies all the time.

The simplest solution, make sure that you can identify people's contributions, that it's not one pile of contribution.

We know how much each person did.

We can say that, Whitney, this is how much you did, and Ayala, this is how much you did.

We even see this with a donation.

So, you know, sometimes you give money to charity and it all goes into some like large bucket and your $10 contribution feels like a drop in the ocean.

Other times, some organizations and charity campaigns, they make sure that they list each donation.

So you can see that Whitney gave $10 and this is much more

more motivating and likely takes care of the problem with having a large group of people working together toward the goal.

I would say that yes, do goals are better than do not goals.

Approach goals are better than avoidance goals.

What do I mean by that?

When you invite people to bring more positive thoughts to their lives, this is much easier than when you tell them not to think about something negative.

They push away negative thoughts.

When you invite people to bring more healthy foods to their diet, that's easier than removing foods from their diet.

Do not goals are problematic, in particular when we think about the long run, when we think about doing things more than today and this week?

There are two reasons.

One reason is that this approach, this to-do goals approach,

tend to just bring to mind what you need to do, whereas the do not goals tend to bring to mind what you should not do.