So, why does watching sport make us want to get sporty ourselves? Watching a sport we’ve dabbled in ourselves, “helps us remember the pleasure we got from both doing it and from the feeling we had mastered aspects of it,” she says. We know people sign up in their thousands after watching sport on TV, but we also know that many people drop out soon afterwards. A further 16% of people have been put off a sport, because they didn’t believe they fit the stereotype of what people playing that sport are “supposed” to look like. When your motivation is high, such as after watching sport on TV, he suggests putting “architecture” in place for when it inevitably dips.

Source: Huffington Post August 09, 2021 03:56 UTC