Halfway effect

Halfway effect refers to a negative impact on the target behavior due to the interaction of psychological factors and environmental factors when reaching halfway in the motivation process. A lot of facts show that the suspension period of human target behaviors mostly occurs in the vicinity of "halfway", and near the midpoint of human target behaviors is an extremely sensitive and extremely vulnerable active area.

There are two main reasons for the halfway effect,
One is the rationality of the target selection, the more unreasonable the target selection, the more likely to have halfway effects;
The second is personal willpower. People with weaker willpower are more likely to have halfway effects.

This requires the head teacher to pay more attention to learning all aspects of knowledge and to cultivate abilities in various aspects when educating students in peacetime, and at the same time pay more attention to the tempering of willpower. Behaviouralists put forward the "big goals, small steps" method, which has a positive meaning for preventing halfway effects.

In daily life, we may be more inclined to how to solve or how to overcome halfway effects.

One of the methods: The phrase "big goals, small steps" can also be transformed into another popular concept, which is goal decomposition. When in the process, the halfway effect triggered by the halfway point is reached, can we re-set a number of small goals on the basis of the big goal? Due to the particularity of the halfway, we can set a few more small goals, so, People will continue to achieve small goals when they are almost halfway, and establish a process of continuous self-motivation.