Do you know someone who's often flaky and inconsistent? Here's how they can learn to follow through on their good intentions, explains swhitbo
’s traits, working memory, and importance of the intention. On the sixth day, participants reported whether they carried out their intention and whether they’d used an external memory aid .
During the five-day period, the researchers also probed whether participants had thoughts related to their future intentions by presenting these statements to choose from:I mentally simulated a future event.I thought about a problem I may face in the future. People who chose #1 or #2 were considered to be more heavily engaged in intention-related thinking relative to their general thoughts about the future. As it turned out, 45 percent of all future-oriented thoughts reported by the German participants involved planning or rehearsing their intentions. In other words, trying to remember a future intention takes up considerable real estate in people’s minds.
Personality also played a minimal role, and not exactly in the way that the authors predicted. People high in conscientiousness were more likely to carry out their intentions, but personality, or enjoyment of thoughts and ideas, was not. People who like to dabble in the activity of the mind apparently don’t enjoy any special benefits when it comes to remembering to carry out their future plans.
Also surprising was the fact that intention-related future thoughts were not strongly predictive of intention completion, but the authors reasoned that they may have underestimated this effect. When taking other factors into account, they concluded that there is, after all, “an adaptive value of intention-related future thoughts” .the three keys to following through on your intentions appear to be worthwhile to put into practice the next time you’ve got an important obligation to complete.
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