Simple things to supercharge your motivation
based on The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter
Hacking Motivation
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Workout your willpower?
Motivation Equation
Low Expectancy
Low Value
High Impulsiveness
High Delay
High Expectancy
High Value
Low Impulsiveness
Low Delay
How can we hack motivation?
Increase Expectancy and Value
Decrease Impulsiveness and Delay
Hacking Expectancy
Success Spirals
Series of achievable goals
Use success so you expect more success and ignore failure
Start with small goals
Build up to larger goals
Do whatever it takes to succeed
Vicarious Victory
Surround yourself with motivated people
Read biographies of successful people
Hacking Value
Find Flow
Avoid tasks that are too easy or too hard
Make tasks challening
Make games of your tasks
Find Meaning
Connect to major life goals
Remind yourself of the connections
Put reminders where you will notice them
Optimize Energy
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Sleep well
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Eat good food
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Be active
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Avoid burnout
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Quality breaks
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Movement
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Nature
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Good music
Focus on Passion
Steer your goals towards your passions
Goals and tasks that follow your passion are intrinsically valuable
Hacking
Impulsiveness
Productive Procrastination
Do any other productive tasks to keep making progress
Perfection is not possible, any progress is good progress
Precommitment
Limit later options
Keep from making bad choices
Tell anyone you can about your goals!
Burnt Ships
Specific type of precommitment
Remove distractions/temptations
Timeboxing
Limit time for tasks
Ignore distractions to succeed
Use short time periods to focus
Pomodoro
Build Useful Habits
Make goals/tasks part of routine
Easier to continue a habit than start one
Hacking Delay
Break Goals Down
Split big goals up
Large goals increase Delay and decrease Expectancy
Create Attainable Goals
Success drives motivation
Challenging goals are more rewarding
My Goals
Lose 50lbs in 3 Months
Precommitment
Precommitment x 2
Burnt Ships
Learn Unity3D
Break Down Goals
Focus on Passion
Timeboxing
Vicarious Victory