Subtle Motivation? February 10, 2007
Posted by Owen in : Life, Weird , 1 comment so farI was at the gym today and I used the elliptical trainer for 30 minutes. (Yay!) I noticed something unusual about these machines: when one increases the resistance, the machine made a quiet low-pitched beep. But when one decreases the resistance, the machine makes a very LOUD high-pitched beep that can be heard across the room. It’s like they’re trying to embarrass you to prevent you from giving up and reducing the difficulty. When you make the resistance 100 to what it’s like and change your mind and go back to 40, well, that’s a lot of loud beeps.