Examples Of Cognitive Dissonance In Soccer

I started playing soccer at the age of four years old. Throughout my life, I graduate from recreational soccer to playing travel soccer in fifth grade. From fifth grade to eleventh grade, I spent four or five days a week throughout the year playing and practicing soccer. I would endure two hour practices multiple times a week. I would suffer through hours of traveling for games and tournaments on the weekends. The result of the time and effort I put into soccer was that I came to enjoy the sport more. The harder the work I put in, the more I came to enjoy the sport. This agrees with the definition cognitive dissonance. The dissonance was created because I did not enjoy the work I was doing. However, to rid the dissonance I come to convince myself that I loved the game of soccer. This resulted in my overall enjoyment for soccer to be greater than it would have had I not suffered through tough practices and long road trips.

The idea that people tend to increase their enjoyment or fondness for something the harder they have worked for it. This is what I experienced. The dissonance was created because I was going through hard experiences or experiences that I did not enjoy and that seemed virtually unrewarding. I went through physically challenging practices and long, boring car rides for a sport I was not going to play in college. In order to reduce the dissonance, I convinced myself that I must really enjoy the sport. I didn't need external incentives for me to continue practicing because I must really like to do all these things already. This is how the effort justification works. I put in hard effort, and because of that, I enjoyed the