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Success is gained through systems, not inspiration
Motivation is just a kind of system.
If you can understand the system, you can change it and use it to gain a better outcome.
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Staying motivated by designing better goals
- One solution is to tilt the playing field if your temporary motivation is strong enough, keeping in mind that there will be lots of little bumps.
- An alternative can be to smooth the bumps by reducing friction to your goal.
- Another is to block the easier routes to help you ...
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Comparing motivation to water flowing downhill
Motivation can be compared with water flowing downhill. Water will always flow in the path of least resistance. If there's a slight lip of land, the water will pool because it can't get over the hump.
Our motivations are similar. We want to be rich, fit, i...
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How motivation works inside the brain
Our brains are parallel computing systems. Billions of neurons and trillions of synapses all fire independently. Yet, we can only take one action at a time. For example, we can't sit and jog at the same time.
The basal ganglia is situated in the brain's neocortex and receive inputs from ma...
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Create systems, not goals.
For example, creating a system; habit or ritual that promotes writing everyday is more effective than setting the goal of writing an essay a week.
- A system can be measured, refined, and optimized. A goal cannot.
- You can work on the inputs of your system to create better quality...
Motivation as a system
Inspiration vs systems is an oversimplification because motivation is often part of the system.
- Motivation can help us over challenging goals.
- Many goals are really external motivators that motivate us inconsistently.
If we can view mot...
Rigid And Unflexible Systems
If your life is really chaotic and unpredictable, it’s likely so because you’ve resisted adopting some kind of system rather than because no system is good enough for your life.
Adopting a system means spending some time to find out what’s important to you and how to get rid of the l...
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