People don’t usually react to someone warning you to stop doing something bad because then you will try to knock out that bad thought wit an excuse. Then how do you motivate yourself to change? This ted talk by Tali Sharot is about how to motivate yourself to change. She said that there are three ways to do that. Progress review, Social incentives, and Immediate reward
Progress reviews, they show you with another person. You will see that and try to be better at it. This also works because of the feeling of pride. You want to be happy so you will do it.
Social incentive is the fact that we can see someone else’s review. You know that you can do it and you can do better. So you will try to improve.
The immediate reward is a reward that you can get now. This works for many things. Quitting smoking and also exercising. It gives you immediate rewards.
That is how you can actually change your behavior without warnings because it will help you more. Could you use these ways to make your life better?