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How to Always Be Motivated #shorts

2023-02-03 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:38 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: Lesson from a book

Ali sums up Jeff Haden's The Motivation Myth: we have motivation backwards, because action leads to motivation; doing the thing brings a small win, which makes you feel like doing it again.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — The Motivation Myth: action leads to motivation

  • ★★ Jeff Haden (quoted): In The Motivation Myth, Jeff Haden argues, citing a body of evidence, that we have motivation backwards: action leads to motivation, and a small success or win from doing something fuels it. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali puts The Motivation Myth's lesson as: you do not need to feel like doing a thing first; do it, get a small success, and that makes you feel like doing it a second time. — 00:00:29

Mentioned

Central: The Motivation Myth

Also: Jeff Haden

Also centred on The Motivation Myth: Why Motivation is a Myth

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