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Neuroscience – The Low Down on Goals
Motivation According to Forbes, in Achieve your Goals Faster, the reason we fail at achieving goals is due to 2 factors: your brain—and your blood pressure. Apparently, high blood pressure can help you keep goals on track! Emily Balcetis, a social psychologist from NYU, recently explained how properly set goals boosts our systolic blood pressure (SBP), which is the measurement of our body being geared up and ready to act. If the goal is easy to achieve we get a nice spike. If it’s moderately hard but seems like a feasible challenge (harder than easy) we get a larger spike and thus more excitement in the body and sympathetic nervous…