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How to Fall in Love With Boredom and Unlock Your Mental Toughness

How to Fall in Love With Boredom and Unlock Your Mental Toughness

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Mastery Also Involves Boredom

Mastery does not happen by chance. If you want to fulfil your potential, you must practice consistently at a specific skill over a long time. But the top performers in any craft also figure out a way to fall in love with boredom or monotony that comes from putting in the hours and doing the work.

Whenever people share the stories of successful people, they often omit how top performers fall in love with boredom while trying to build a habit of what they should do.

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How to Fall in Love With Boredom

There is little hope of falling in love with a habit you really hate. If you dislike exercising, but you know it's good for you, you have two options to fall in love with the repetitiveness of the routine:

  • You can increase your proficiency at the task. Learn the basic fundamentals of your task and celebrate the small wins and improvements you make.
  • You can fall in love with a result of the task rather than the task itself.

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The Power of Patience

Success is often found by practising the fundamentals that everyone knows they should be doing, but they find it too tedious or simple to practice regularly.

A blend of patience and consistency creates the ultimate advantage.

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