Dr. Kentaro Fujita

So there might also be regulation not just to maximize motivation, but the right type and at the right level for the task at hand.

So you can imagine your colleague David Grogan is going –

absolutely crazy at a daycare soccer, you know, like some children's soccer game, that would be bad, right?

So you need to scale back motivation, find that sweet spot.

So I think there is a lot of this regulation that people kind of do intuitively.

Some people probably do it better than others.

And I love this idea.

I've never thought about it as sort of warming up because it might take a couple of moments

to actually get all the ducks lined up in a row so that the system is operating functionally, both cognitively, motivationally, biologically, at all levels to maximize performance.

And I love this idea.

You also mentioned this idea of switching.

And there is an extensive literature in cognitive psychology.

It's called task switching, moving from one set of tasks to the other and rapidly switching back and forth.

There's something known as the switch cost.

There's a sort of delay and a decrease in performance at the very point of switching because there's kind of a cognitive inertia.

You're still operating on the old set and it takes some time to figure out how to switch into the new one.

sort of zooming out a little bit, I think that's also related to research on disengaging, right?

So, you know, I've been pursuing this goal for so long and I get it and now it's done.

It doesn't really make sense to keep going because you've already accomplished it.

It's time to move on to something else.