A New Way to Increase Motivation?

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I ran across this article and thought it seemed like an interesting idea. It basically says changing your perspective from the 1st person "I" to the 3rd person "he" or "she" can help you gain an outsider's perspective on how to reach your goal(s) and subsequently improve motivation. I have heard of talking to yourself (2nd person) to improve motivation, but never 3rd. The real question is can this actually help improve motivation or is it just weird? What do you think? Anyone already do this? Anyone see any potential problems with doing this? Is it possible that using this technique could alter your appraisal of an event thereby changing the resulting motive?

A New Way to Increase Motivation

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