MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

More or Less: The World Is What You Make It

Understanding the Power of Our Unexamined Assumptions. Reviewing ‘The Expectation Effect’ by David Robson

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Joel J Miller
Apr 30, 2022
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Nobody likes discomfort. But what if I told you that discomfort could boost your performance? In research conducted by Kaitlin Woolley and Ayelet Fishbach, subjects performed better when prompted to think positively about discomfort compared to those given more neutral cues.

“Your goal is to push past your comfort zone,” Woolley and Fishbach informed tho…

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