Das Anzweifeln Ihrer Zweifel kann das Engagement für Ziele erhöhen: Wenn Menschen, die sich Sorgen um das Erreichen eines Identitätsziels machten, dazu gebracht wurden, einen metakognitiven Zweifel zu verspüren, engagierten sie sich stärker für das Erreichen ihres Ziels

>A psychology professor found that when people who were worried about achieving an identity goal were induced to experience what is called meta-cognitive doubt, they actually became more committed to achieving their goal.
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>“What this study found is that inducing doubts in one’s doubts can provide a formula for confidence,” said Patrick Carroll, author of the study and professor of psychology at The Ohio State University at Lima.

>Findings showed that the writing exercise succeeded in making people feel more confident or more doubtful in their own thoughts about their identity goal – even though the writing exercise was not directly connected to their goals.
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>Here’s how it worked: Those participants who felt doubtful about their identity goal – and then wrote about an experience feeling confident – were less committed to achieving their goal. In other words, the writing exercise made them more confident in their doubts about achieving their goal.

[Full article: Increasing identity goal commitment by inducing doubt in goal doubts](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15298868.2025.2597804)

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Basically me every day at work