A TikTok trend suggests turning New Year's resolutions into bingo cards to increase motivation and adherence. Behavioural psychologist Jessen James explains that gamifying goals taps into our desire for completion and progress, making them more enjoyable and sustainable. The approach reframes achievement as a series of successes rather than a binary fail/win.
“failed” our new-year-new-me missions by February, according to Time, while only 8% of us stick with them for the whole year.
HuffPost UK spoke to behavioural psychologist Jessen James about whether the approach would really work ― and how to get a resolution full house in 2025.Jessen told HuffPost UK that the method is “a really clever tool for motivation,” as “when things feel fun and manageable, we as human beings are more likely to stick with them”.
“Our unconscious mind seeks for more of what it deems as good for us so we will aim to ‘tick off’ the next goal.”
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