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How to hack your motivation, according to a decision scientist

I bet more than a few of you have made New Year’s resolutions in the classic categories: diet and exercise. You’ll be happy to know that you’re in good company — those are the most popular resolutions according to the results of pretty much every online survey since dinosaurs roamed the earth. So that’s where we’ll draw our examples from (body goals, not dinosaurs) but the contents of this article can be adapted to almost any type of self-improvement.

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