The Real Reason Why You Sabotage Your Own Goals

How to overcome psychological reactance, the rarely discussed psychological reflex that’s holding you back

Nir Eyal
Forge
Published in
3 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Illustrations: Fru Pinter

Recently, as I was clearing the dinner table, I asked my daughter if she could wash the dishes.

“I was going to, Dad,” she said. “But now that you’ve asked me to, I don’t want to…

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Nir Eyal
Forge
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