The article explains how giving people money incentives can improve
their decisions in certain areas in life. They tested a few different areas in
life such as losing weight, quitting smoking, and exercising more. While these
are areas that can definitely change people’s lives in a positive way and also
areas that people struggle with I am not sure that giving them incentives such
as money is the best way to encourage them. Although psychologist argue that
after a certain amount of time these people take their life changes semi-
permanent, the end result would go back to the way they were because the
incentive isn’t there anymore.
Incentives can be a
good thing depending on how they are being used. The way this article uses
money as an incentive to make people change bad habits in life can turn into a
bad habit. For example if one gave student’s money to do well in school the
results would only be short-term. What happens after the incentive is gone? The
student never learns to discipline themselves into doing well in schools. Same
goes for losing weight, exercising, and quitting smoking; the result will be
long term once the person finds self-motivation. Using money as an incentive
should be limited to those who are at a high health risk.
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