All statements about identified motivation

16 statements about identified motivation in 7 sources, by upload date.

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2024

2024-05-20 · Find Your True Motivation 🔎 — Ali defines extrinsic motivation as doing something for an external reward or to avoid punishment, such as working a job for money, and intrinsic motivation as doing it for its own sake because the process is enjoyable or meaningful. — 00:00:00
2024-05-20 · Find Your True Motivation 🔎 — Ali says all the evidence shows that intrinsic motivation is far more powerful and durable than extrinsic motivation. — 00:00:00
2024-05-20 · Find Your True Motivation 🔎 — Ali says extrinsic motivators often crowd out intrinsic motivation, even for something you are intrinsically motivated to do. — 00:00:00

2020

2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied) · Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life — recommendation: Ali calls motivation a myth but thinks it helps to make use of bursts of motivation when they come, as he does by watching more guitar theory lessons over lunch. — 00:02:26
2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — Ali says that to be more productive or build a healthy habit people think they need more motivation or discipline, but there is an easier way, which is all about the power of friction. — 00:00:29

2018

2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — recommendation: Ali says motivation is pretty much a myth and people should use discipline instead to get things done. — 00:08:52
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali calls motivation, the idea that you must feel like revising chemistry before you revise it, a complete myth: if you know you need to do it, discipline is the way forward. — 00:19:46
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali tries to scrub the word motivation from his vocabulary because he thinks it unhelpful: if he needs to do something, he does it because he is disciplined. — 00:20:22
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali treats pure discipline as an ideal to look towards, without beating yourself up too hard for falling short of it. — 00:20:51
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali gives three ways to improve motivation: make the activity more fun, reduce friction, and increase the salience of the outcome. — 00:20:51
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: Examples of raising the salience of the outcome, says Ali: viewers watch his Cambridge videos or Ibz Mo's to stay motivated, and his brother kept a picture of Oxford as his desktop wallpaper. — 00:21:17
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: To make two hours of boring SixMed admin emails more fun, Ali goes to Costa, gets a flat white and puts on music. — 00:21:41
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: To revise for long hours, Ali advises making it fun. — 00:33:41
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali calls motivation a myth: he sees no value in using motivation as a motivator, because it is all about discipline. — 00:16:51
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali says a specific goal makes motivation easy: a squat personal best gets you to the gym more than getting healthier; the more specific the goal (SMART), the easier the motivation. — 00:17:39
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: On a day you cannot study, Ali advises asking what your goal is and whether a break is consistent with it: if it is, take a break; if not, battle through, as he wrote in his latest newsletter. — 00:21:27