Dr. Kentaro Fujita

I think that's a really interesting idea.

One is we tend to think about self-control again at the tactic level, what do I do to overcome this temptation?

And I think largely overlooked is this idea of what do I want to do?

Again, because you don't get your goal from a single behavior, it's through repeated patterns of action.

So to really come up with better ways to understand repeated patterns of action in the lab,

or in the field, I think is a major challenge that the field has to take on and hasn't.

And I think one of the reasons why we haven't studied it is because it's so hard.

That's why we go back to these one-shot deals.

I think that's one of the most important things to think about.

Another is, and again, we talked about this two modes idea.

Am I pursuing the one goal or am I pursuing the many?

I think in psychology, we have spent a lot of time focusing on the pursuit of the one.

And we haven't really done a good job of sort of embracing the pursuit of the many.

To the extent that we have, it's usually like two goals.

So like work-life balance, we'll look at how people navigate those.

But as I mentioned before, we have more than two goals at any given time.

So how do we integrate all of these goals?

How do we pursue them all the time?

How are we juggling all these balls and keeping track of them?

Are there goals that we have that we're not even aware of that we're actually pursuing?