To Achieve Your Goals, Lump and Slice

For anyone who has tried to train for a marathon, save for a house, or do any number of things that rely on many small decisions over time, this is a familiar problem. And it’s one that Lee Anne Fennell tells us can be solved by exploiting our sensitivity to how we bundle and divide tasks and choices—the way we lump and slice them.

“Splitting up goals into smaller pieces allows more of our temporal selves to pitch in, but it also makes each contribution seem less essential and easier to skip,” she explains. “The problem is one of optimal granularity—ideally, each contribution would be crucial yet manageable. In short, to get the lumps we want, we must do some artful slicing.”

Source: behavioralscientist.org

Read the research here: https://behavioralscientist.org/to-achieve-your-goals-lump-and-slice/.