Master Self Control & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Kentaro Fujita

Experiments show that having people focus on the immediate, short-term negative costs of indulgence (such as a sugar crash) effectively promotes self-control.

"And my PhD student Paul Stillman and a colleague of his, um, Caitlin Woolley, they did some experiments in which they had people think about it's usually when you think about self-control, you think about the short-term or long-term gains. They instead had people think about the short-term losses of indulging. So, what are some of the things like what's the like think about the sugar crash that you would experience if you ate the chocolate cake, right? So, and they showed that that kind of served much like you were talking about the vomit response, it pushes people away far enough. They're in the short-term mindset, they're thinking about short-term things, the short-term is pulling them in, so they fight that with a short-term repellent. And they found that that's also very effective for self-control." (said at 0:38:40)

No published record matching the specific experiments by Paul Stillman and Kaitlin Woolley on focusing on immediate short-term costs (e.g., sugar crashes or immediate negative consequences) to promote self-control was located in the searched PubMed and Europe PMC databases. This research may appear in marketing, business, or general psychology journals not indexed in biomedical databases; therefore, this verdict does not prove the claim false.

Achievement motivation is normally distributed across the human population.

"We do know that achievement motivation is a motivation like many other motivations that's probably normally distributed." (said at 1:13:50)

No dedicated biomedical or epidemiological studies directly testing and establishing the population-wide normal distribution of achievement motivation across the global human population were located in PubMed. In differential psychology and psychometrics, individual differences in motives (such as David McClelland's need for achievement or standardized achievement motivation inventories) are generally operationalized and assumed to be continuously and approximately normally distributed traits, consistent with the speaker's qualification that it is 'probably normally distributed.' However, empirical confirmation of this specific distributional claim as a biomedical fact remains unverified in the indexed literature.