Ayelet Fishbach

Note how much you're going to save in total.

Exercising goal.

People talk about a weekly exercising goal.

Now, clearly you do not just want to exercise this week.

You will have that goal again next week.

Well, you set a weekly exercise goal so it has a beginning and an end and very short middle.

School is an interesting one because it is actually easier in higher education where we break the year more clearly into terms which are relatively short so there is not much of a middle.

And for kids, they have the long year, which is kind of hard.

Like you start in September, so maybe you're excited on the first week and then you will be again excited in June when the school year is about to end.

But there was such a long middle period.

break it into a weekly goal, a monthly goal, something that has a short middle that is not long-term.

People are not good at pursuing something where the benefits are very far.

There is a lot of research on developmental effects.

You brought up several other variables that just get me thinking in like 10 different directions right now.

So let me focus on the age.

There are

Some really interesting developmental effects.

Self-control develops with age, so the ability to put aside something because there is something more important that you want to do.

That's something that develops into your 20s, and that suggests that maybe there is another reason why we should stop calling ourselves

teenagers, procrastinators and blaming them for lack of self-control, they are still developing it.