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Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation

byAyelet Fishbach

Behavioral scientist Ayelet Fishbach translates research on motivation into practical strategies for setting goals, sustaining effort, and recovering from setbacks. She explains how people choose objectives, monitor progress, manage competing desires, use incentives, and draw support from relationships. Counterintuitive findings show when focusing on success helps, when discomfort signals growth, and why vague aspiration often fails without structure. The book treats motivation not as a fixed personality trait but as a system that can be redesigned. Fishbach helps readers align immediate actions with long-term priorities while accepting that persistence must be continually renewed.

Publisher

Little Brown & Company

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780316538343