Welcome, I'm excited to introduce all of you to psychologist Gabriele Oettingen, author of Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation. And also the researcher who developed this technique WOOP that we talk about in the course. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for having me. So what we wanted to do today was just to hear in your own words what is this technique WOOP. Students have already heard about it a little bit in class, but we thought that since you discovered that you can kind of give us some context and talk a little bit about it. So what is WOOP? It's a strange word, but. What is WOOP? 0:34 WOOP is an acronym for four steps which is Wish, Outcome, Obstacle and Plan. And WOOP is a tool. 0:48 WOOP is like, you know, a bicycle, or a hammer, or any tool you might use in your life to get by in a better way. 1:03 And WOOP is a tool which is relati