Oh my, how we love TedTalk and we listen to it often to hear talks from different seasoned researches and professionals who discuss ideas that changes the world and people’s lives most importantly. The other day, we heard a talk about “Why some people find exercise harder than others” given by Emily Balcetis who is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University whose main interest is on social psychology.
Now, going on to the talk, we share our views below and the video is at the end of the post and you can watch it by hitting the play button.
Emily Balcetis stressed that our vision is most important as it helps us interpret the world around us. According to her, perception is subjective and what we see is filtered through our own mind’s eye in her own words. Our beliefs and past experiences affect the way we interpret things, people, and influences any action on how to motivate yourself to exercise in the long run.
She went on to tackle one thing that people are talking about and that is our health and fitness. Despite people’s best intentions not to add weight or to exercise, we fail continuously and give up most times which happens not too long after making we make the commitment. Talking or wishing or making a commitment is not enough as action is needed. But taking action can be seen as difficult by most people as she acknowledged in the talk and she has argued that the perception in our mind’s eye is the single most important reason why some see exercise as more difficult and others see it as easier.
According to the study she carried out, she found that people’s body states...
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