NEGATIVE LUMPING

2024-01-25

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You have heard of the "all or nothing" mentality, but what about "negative lumping" It is a similar concept that I do see with a lot of my clients It is when they dismiss their efforts because they do not hit their target/goal For example Someone eats really well all week, but they mess up over the weekend (this happens a lot) So they dismiss the ENTIRE week, even when their weekday eating was FAR BETTER than usual or The person that decides to train 5 x a week for a month - but they only average 4 x ...

You have heard of the "all or nothing" mentality, but what about "negative lumping"

It is a similar concept that I do see with a lot of my clients

It is when they dismiss their efforts because they do not hit their target/goal

For example

Someone eats really well all week, but they mess up over the weekend (this happens a lot)

So they dismiss the ENTIRE week, even when their weekday eating was FAR BETTER than usual

The person that decides to train 5 x a week for a month - but they only average 4 x and they are bummed at

their "failure" when in fact they did 8 more workout that usual!

Being able to recognise the progress in the "near misses" is vital.

This also couple nicely with the "optimal failure rate"

If we set a target behavior and hit it 100% of the time (zero failure) the bar was set too low and we will likely become bored.

If we only hit the behavior target 50% of the time we can become very discouraged. We set the bar too high.