A further (slightly obvious) suggestion for improving the effectiveness of implementation intentions.
From research by Oettingen/Gollwitzer (I’m thinking of this paper in particular http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer/OettingenGollwitzer.pdf) it seems that visualising concrete failure modes before implementing a TAP is a good strategy for improving long term commitment, in that subjects who used both mental contrasting and implementation intentions were better able to resolve bugs than subjects who only used only one technique. Think of ways you have failed to achieve precommited goals in the past; as well as potential obstacles that may prevent you from winning in this instance. (Oettingen herself is fond of framing this as WOOP: make a Wish; visualise the fuzzy-happy Outcome; visualise the Obstacles; make a trigger action Plan.)
By the way, I’m very grateful for a sequence like this, having never been to a CFAR workshop.
Absolutely, I plan to cover CFAR’s take on visualizing failure modes, Murphyjitsu (“everything that can go wrong will go wrong”) on Day 10, Planning. After that it’ll definitely be helpful to apply Murphyjitsu to bulletproof every single other technique.
A further (slightly obvious) suggestion for improving the effectiveness of implementation intentions.
From research by Oettingen/Gollwitzer (I’m thinking of this paper in particular http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer/OettingenGollwitzer.pdf) it seems that visualising concrete failure modes before implementing a TAP is a good strategy for improving long term commitment, in that subjects who used both mental contrasting and implementation intentions were better able to resolve bugs than subjects who only used only one technique. Think of ways you have failed to achieve precommited goals in the past; as well as potential obstacles that may prevent you from winning in this instance. (Oettingen herself is fond of framing this as WOOP: make a Wish; visualise the fuzzy-happy Outcome; visualise the Obstacles; make a trigger action Plan.)
By the way, I’m very grateful for a sequence like this, having never been to a CFAR workshop.
Absolutely, I plan to cover CFAR’s take on visualizing failure modes, Murphyjitsu (“everything that can go wrong will go wrong”) on Day 10, Planning. After that it’ll definitely be helpful to apply Murphyjitsu to bulletproof every single other technique.