Lesson 13: Self Control And Relapse Prevention - Slide  38

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To Increase Self Control

  • Use many different descriptions of the same thing
  • An idea becomes convincing if you see it in a number of different forms:
  • Write your goals
  • Make them into plaques
  • Paint them
  • Represent them in pictures
  • Write them in a song
  • Have someone else read them to you
  • Have them printed on a Tee shirt
Notes:

Pg. 15-19, “Changing Minds, The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds,” Howard Gardner, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2004.

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