I think this is implicitly making the target too narrow for people that care about getting there and might consider this a reference point.
Does a narrow, hardly achievable target actually have a negative effect? It would be interesting to see some research, in particular as it’d imply sequence “Challenging the Difficult” makes things worse for part of people.
I’ve heard that, for sleep in particular, some people have Received Wisdom that everyone needs 8 hours of sleep per day, and if they’re not getting it, that’s a problem, and this has led some people who naturally sleep 7 hours to worry and stress about it, causing insomnia and whatnot.
Of course, ideally such people would have better ability to manage such worries (and better “I should do some more googling before stressing about it too hard” reflexes), but in practice many do not.
Does a narrow, hardly achievable target actually have a negative effect? It would be interesting to see some research, in particular as it’d imply sequence “Challenging the Difficult” makes things worse for part of people.
I’ve heard that, for sleep in particular, some people have Received Wisdom that everyone needs 8 hours of sleep per day, and if they’re not getting it, that’s a problem, and this has led some people who naturally sleep 7 hours to worry and stress about it, causing insomnia and whatnot.
Of course, ideally such people would have better ability to manage such worries (and better “I should do some more googling before stressing about it too hard” reflexes), but in practice many do not.