brain

Question 1

what does sugar suggest, when thinking about fitness goals?

Answer 1

• stop thinking about the future health, weight loss, etc. and think about making it relevant now, and also enhancing the current well-being and happiness.

Question 2

what is the elephant analogy?

Answer 2

• the elephant analogy is powerful and possibly unreliable part of the brain that plays a role in emotions that comes from the right side of the Brian. this is our subcountious thought.
• the rider is the continue thought where we are able to control our thoughts, and comes from the left side of the brain.

Question 3

what are 3 important factors regarding change?

Answer 3

• (direct) rider
• (motivate) elephant
• (shape) pat

Question 4

how would you define the direct rider?

Answer 4

• finding the blind spots
• scripting the critical moves
• having clear goals, and how they can be measured and defined.
• point of destination. (knowing where a person is headed and how it will feel to get their.)

Question 5

what is the motivated elephant analogy?

Answer 5

• this is likely a highly complicated program for someone to fallow, but they likely do not fallow it because it is overwhelming by trying to perfect the details.

Question 6

what is shrink the change, the motivated elephant analogy?

Answer 6

• This is breaking up the goal into short small stages in order to make the goal more achievable.

Question 7

discribe “grow the client” from the motivated elephant analogy?

Answer 7

• help the client grow their confidence, which will allow them to have larger growth than the change they expect to happen.
• confidence slowly increases.

Question 8

what is a habit?

Answer 8

• a behaviour that has been repeated enough to become automatic, as it also frees up space in the brain.

Question 9

how do habits show to have the best success/ greatest results?

Answer 9

• small habit/ (small change) can help with frequency and building up a healthy habit over time.

Question 10

what steps/ stages are used to become aware of habits?

Answer 10

1. cue
   - sends trigger to the brain to start a specific behaviour.
2. craving
   - a certain feeling or emotion arises
3. response
   - the habit itself
4. reward
   - temporary or permanent rewards/ benefits can be used. they can be psychological or physiological.

Question 11

when developing good habits, the 4 laws are used, what is OAES?

Answer 11

• OBVIOUS
• ATTRACTIVE
• EASY
• SATISFYING

Question 12

describe what _________ are
1. OBVIOUS
2. ATTRACTIVE
3. EASY
4. SATISFYING

Answer 12

1. this is leaving things in a certain spot in order to remind yourself to do something.
2. you do the thing you want with the new habit you are building. this way you are tempting yourself by still giving yourself your old habit you are getting rid of, but building a new habit.
3. making easy habits in small goals, so that you are increasing the amount of times you do it, so that it is easy for you to remember and do.
4. setting up a reward that is satisfying to you, that makes you want to strive for that goal.