Weight loss journey
Bannister Effect
Watching others achieve their fitness or weight loss goals after breaking their own mental barriers encourages you to stick to your plan.
Similar Situations
The Four Chronotypes
Improving Weight Loss Strategies: Bears and Lions benefit from early eating, whereas Wolves and Dolphins do better with intermittent fasting.
Skinner's Superstition Experiment
Personal fitness: Stick to evidence-based exercise and nutrition plans, rather than superstitions about weight loss or muscle gain.
Law of Deminishing Returns
Diet: Balancing food intake to provide enough nutrients without overeating and gaining weight.
Hedonic Treadmill
Fitness Journey: Recognizing that the excitement of achieving fitness goals may fade can help you focus on enjoying the process and forming healthy habits instead of just the end result.
Kubler-Ross Curve
Job loss: Navigating the emotional stages after losing employment to facilitate recovery and moving forward.
Pessimism Bias
Education planning: Knowing pessimism bias can help you create realistic study plans and expectations, considering potential accomplishments and successes in your educational journey.
Optimism Bias
Education planning: Knowing optimism bias can help you create realistic study plans and expectations, considering potential obstacles or challenges in your educational journey.
Loss Aversion
Financial decisions: Understanding loss aversion can help you make more rational investment choices and avoid emotional decision-making based on potential losses.
Flea In a Jar
Starting a Fitness Journey: Failed diets or inconsistent workouts in the past don’t mean you’re doomed. Restart with new methods and mindset.
Plutchik's Wheel
Grieving process: Understand the different emotions involved in grieving, helping you navigate loss and provide support to others experiencing grief.