The Secret to Sustained Motivation? Association

In 2003, Greg Walton and Geoffrey Cohen devised an intriguing experiment. They took a group of Yale freshman and gave them an insoluble maths puzzle to work on – but with a catch. Beforehand, the undergraduates were asked to read a mix of magazines articles, including a one-page-first-person account of a former Yale maths student […]

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