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The benefits of a bedtime routine
How to improve your sleep quality
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The Success Spiral
- Make a tiny achievable goal that you can’t forget to do.
- Track your success doing this goal.
- Give your goal a completion date.
- Once you complete your goal, up it to a bigger goal.
Focus on input based process goals (write for five minutes) rather than output-based results goals (write one page). And keep the required inputs minimal at first.
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By increasing Expectancy or Value, or decreasing Impulsiveness or Delay, you hack motivation.
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The CSI Approach
- Challenging (motivating and exciting)
- Specific (not abstract)
- Immediate (avoid long-delayed goals and focus on what you can do now)
- Approach-oriented (as opposed to avoidance goals)
If...
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The motivation hacker learns to steer his life towards higher Value and to have fun demolishing boring necessities in his way.
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Increasing Expectancy
- Success Spirals: Win at something small then keep leveling it up
- Vicarious Victory: Hang out with motivated people
- Mental Contrasting: Visualize the success you want to have and then contrast it with where you are now
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Reducing Delay
- Break your goals down so the ends feel nearer
- Let yourself plan fallaciously so you’re more motivated
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Willpower
The will is a process of making personal rules for ourselves that will help us reach our goals, and how much willpower we can muster is precisely how good we are at setting up these personal rules so that we prefer to keep our rules than break them.
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The Hack Technique
First pick your goals, then figure out which motivation hacks to use on the subtasks that lead to those goals—and then use far more of them than you need, so that you not only succeed, but that you do so with excitement and joy.
The Formula: Motivation = (Expectancy x Valu...
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Exercise: Goal Picking
Imagine your ideal day. What do you do? Whom do you talk to? Where do you go? Pick a few goals that will bring you closer to that ideal day.
Make a list of every crazy goal you can think of. Then rate each goal on three factors: how much the goal excite...
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How To Learn Any Skill
- Get excited about a skill
- While you’re excited, make time and hack up motivation to practice it
- Learn how to practice it from reading or from a teacher
- Start doing it right away
Whatever goals you pick, you should have some way of measuring the results. Ma...
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Reducing Impulsiveness
- Make a recommitment
- Burn your ships
- Set goal reminders
- Timebox your tasks
- Build useful habits
- Schedule play before work, so you know when you’re taking a break
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To precommit is to choose now to limit your options later, preventing yourself from making the wrong choice in the face of temptation. Publicly announcing your goal is a common form of precommitment.
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The Playbook Of Motivation Hacking
- Precommitment: Using a commitment device to choose now to limit your options later, preventing yourself from making the wrong choice in the face of temptation. Putting money on the line, publicly announcing your goals, etc.
- Burnt Ships: List out al...
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Increasing Value
- Find Flow
- Find Meaning: Look for ways to connect tasks to major life goals
- CSI Approach goals(mentioned above)
- Optimize Your Energy
- Productive Procrastination: If you can’t do...
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