What is the melon seed effect?
A bag of melon seeds, one day you pick up the first one to eat, you will eat the second one, the third one … until you can't stop. If you are allowed to eat a packet of ready-made melon seeds, you may get tired of eating a few bites. Perhaps you have wondered why melon seeds are not so delicious, so why do you just like them?
It only takes a few seconds for us to chew and eat a melon seed. This means that every effort you make will be rewarded quickly. When people do anything, they want immediate feedback. The shorter the feedback time, the happier you will be. This is the famous "melon seed effect".
The case of melon seed effect:
In the 20th century, American psychologist Skinner skillfully designed the Skinner Box to study animal behavior. He put a hungry mouse in a "skinning box". When the mouse accidentally stepped on the lever in the box, he gave it food to strengthen its action. Repeatedly, the mouse will automatically step on the lever to get food. Skinner's reinforcement theory proves the significance of reinforcement to behavior shaping.
Later, the psychologist Palin found that in skinner box, it is difficult to form the behavioral tendency of stepping on the lever when there is no food within 30 seconds after the mouse steps on the lever. This shows that we should not only strengthen it, but also strengthen it in time! Now do you understand why you can't stop eating melon seeds? This is the charm of strengthening in time.
How to use the melon seed effect?
The way to resist "happy eating melon seeds" is never to make yourself a "music forbidden person", both of which are extreme. The best way is to use "endorphin happiness" instead of "happy eating melon seeds". The following three small methods can help us reverse the way of happiness and get deep satisfaction and happiness.
1, take the melon seeds away.
Advanced happiness needs to be obtained through self-discipline, and the first step of self-discipline is to take away the "melon seeds", so as not to easily fall into "melon seeds happiness" and to sink down and enjoy the delayed satisfaction.
2. Keep giving yourself positive feedback.
Turn your negative thinking into positive thinking and give yourself more positive feedback. Affirming our Excellence, strengthening our efforts and making ourselves feel positive energy will make it easier for us to overcome the "happiness of eating melon seeds" and move towards "endorphins" step by step. After all, affirmation produces affirmation, and negation produces negation.
3. Set goals and achieve a more "happy" self.
A person, with greater pursuit, will not be tempted by the "happy melon seeds" in front of him Of course, it is important to set goals and find ways. Whether it is a narrow path or a broad road, we can firmly adhere to the confidence every step forward, and we can do our best even if there are many difficulties.
Enlightenment of melon seed effect:
According to the melon seed effect, we think in reverse: in the process of eating melon seeds, refine the big goal into small goals, just like every melon seed, you can get a melon seed. It is this kind of timely and quick feedback that makes you addicted to eating melon seeds.
So do you understand now, no matter what you do? Timely feedback is needed to avoid giving up because the feedback period is too long. Therefore, when planning, we should shorten the period of available feedback as soon as possible. Therefore, it is necessary to arrange the plan reasonably, refine the big goal into small goals, get feedback in time during the process, and stack each small goal to complete the big goal.