Extreme Heat Slowing You Down? It’s All in Your Head and Think yourself better both point to ways in which the human brain is more powerful than most of the things we throw at it. Certainly, doing Dragon boating as a team has made it much easier for me to try to get fit than if I had just looked at my gut in the mirror.
Shurely the effect of peer pressure and the motivation of team work over the guilty shame of seeing oneself in the mirror?
Indeed. The article suggests that it is far better to have the positive attitude rather than the negative in terms of measurable outcomes.