the motivation hacker - nick winter

[...]... so that you have more fun If the thought of losing $100 can motivate you to go to the gym three times a week for a month, then bind yourself with $1000 and watch yourself run cheerfully to the gym through the cold rain that you hadn’t planned for If the goal excites you and the motivation is there, then there will be a fire inside you to keep you warm, and the rain and the cold will be puny obstacles... what happened the first time? Well, I can’t remember why I thought I’d be braver the second time, but the terror I felt is still clear today—and it’s much stronger than the embarrassment of being that wimpy guy who stopped the ride twice They had a kiddie roller coaster at the Renaissance festivals in the summers, and listening to the tiny kids’ Doppler laughter coming from that ten-foot-tall dragon... rode the Mystery Mine Ride at the Mall of America, where they sit you in a theater with a chair that lurches along with a short film of a truck careening down a mountain Twice they had to stop the ride for everyone so some wimp could escape It was the same guy each time! I mean, come on—how terrified of heights do you have to be before you’d rather flee the theater in public shame— twice—than sit there... wasn’t your fault and another thing to half-try next time If you realize the implications of this Expectancy model and the mechanics of success and failure spirals, though, then these rationalizations lose power The harder you try, the more likely you are to succeed, but the more Expectancy you will lose if you fail If you are facing a goal difficult enough to require all your effort, then you stand to risk... no retreat The Sword in your hand is there to remind you of the stakes Or, you can lock the Sword away until the time is right If you’re reading this at a truly bad time for taking action, then pick it up again at a better time and commit then But do not do it lightly: most of the reasons for avoiding commitment now are deadly excuses If you can’t make a motivation hacking plan right now, then figure... the right mindset, success is ever right around the corner Note on the Research I first read about the motivation equation in a blog post[17] over a year ago, in March 2011 The article summarized Piers Steels’ book, The Procrastination Equation, which was itself a summary of the state of our empirical evidence about how motivation works and techniques for improving it I started experimenting with the. .. have a lot, then you can rely on it to carry you through the hard parts on the way to your goals And if you don’t, then you’d better pick out a smooth path to your goal from the onset, or you’ll fall off A more popular model of willpower is that it’s like a muscle The more willpower you exert, the less you’ll have that day with which to resist further temptations, but the more you’ll have in the future... to minimize the likelihood of it even coming to that through careful planning If precommitment is traditionally an Impulsiveness hack, then the way I suggest doing it may be thought of pre-overcommitment, where you’re hacking Expectancy now since you know Impulsiveness won’t get you later You feel confident the whole time, and it’s not about the stakes The more difficult the goal, then the more care... our rules than to break them This is a learnable skill Regardless of what model of willpower the motivation hacker uses, she will structure her goals so that she doesn’t need to rely on willpower to achieve them If we can muster it, willpower makes up for insufficient motivation by consciously imposing values on our decisions The motivation hacker plans to always have excess motivation If willpower... start bounding for the email, turn and try the Skritter forum, make as if to Google the phrasing of that gem-like flame quote, feint for the email again, and then, walled in on all sides by the knowledge that the internet was off, sit back down and continue writing, trying to pretend with dignity that it was just stretching This tapered off over a week, and then my focus was always there: my writing . w1 h0" alt="" The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter Copyright 2013 Nick Winter Kindle Edition Contents Chapter One - Protagonist Chapter Two - How Motivation Works Chapter Three - Success Spirals Chapter. Spirals Chapter Four - Precommitment Chapter Five - Social Skills Chapter Six - Time Coins Chapter Seven - Startup Man Chapter Eight - Learning Anything Chapter Nine - Task Samurai Chapter Ten - Experiments Chapter. no idea how many people read The 4-Hour Work Week [6] and then start a business that gives them the freedom to sell their junk and travel as in Life Nomadic[7], then return to crush[8] being