Write A Book Using Positive Feedback Loop
- Plan to write one sentence a day for the next few days. It is an easy thing to do.
- Feel good about writing one sentence a day.
- When it becomes too easy, change it to two sentences a day.
- Focus on small victories and share them with others.
- If you get off-track in your daily writing routine, try to be self-compassionate instead of being discouraged.
- Find something new to learn and get back on track quickly.
- Congrats on your new book!
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Most of our plans of getting some discipline in our morning routine get hit by the truck of distraction and interruption. The mistake we make is that we plan something which is already set up for failure, leading to discouragement. If this happens constantly, it results in negative feedback loops that ‘deactivate’ our motivation.
The solution is to change the design of the plan to incorporate positive feedback loops.
- Do not judge, discourage or humiliate yourself, and try to cultivate self-compassion.
- Go for small wins.
- Practise gratitude in the smallest things: Millions of people are not alive to see the year 2021, but you are.
- Scale up or scale down your work based on your requirement.
- In case you get off-tracked, go for the smallest possible accomplishment and start to get back on track.
- Rope in your friends and loved ones to share your positive feedback loop.
We need to build a system based on positive feedback loops, in order to get constant encouragement and move it in the right direction.
The main principle for a better system design is to have no wrongness or judgement associated with it so that we are unable to judge ourselves, feel discouraged and move towards a negative feedback loop.
- Completing a task and ticking it off from a task list.
- Exercising and telling your friends about it.
- Get positive grades after completing a quiz.
- Feel gratitude after meditating.
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Feedback is essential when you learn a new skill. However, when people learn the skill of 'creating new habits,' they think making mistakes is a sign of being a failure and showing an utter lack of discipline.
In reality, this is not true. No one mastered anything on their first few attempts — it takes practice to get good at anything.
We want people to be less rude, to do certain things, to avoid doing certain things, and to change their lives, eventually feeling frustrated when we realize that we cannot control them and it is impossible to change anyone.
The core error we make all the time is that we want others to be in a certain way, which almost never happens. The other alternative which hardly anyone follows is to let others be whatever they want to be and be at peace even if they are annoying.
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."
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