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You've got a very strong point. The role of environment is severely underrated. Not just in our failures, but in our successes as well. Motivation runs dry, b
by grwthckrmstr 9y ago
You've got a very strong point.
The role of environment is severely underrated. Not just in our failures, but in our successes as well.
Motivation runs dry, but environment can be set up to work in your favour.
For example, if you sold your couch and TV, you wouldn't watch TV first thing after getting home or on weekends.
This isn't to say that you'll magically become more productive, but to just illustrate how changing the environment can have a profound effect on your habits and therefore, your life.
- ehnto 9y agoAfter realising I had succumb to the quick-fire, quick-fix attitude of phones and social media, I used my now shortened attention span against itself by putting barriers between me and those quick fixes. If I want to check my phone I have to go get it and wait for it to turn on. If I want to check distracting sites on my computer, I'll have to log in first. They're small, but normally what happens is I will start to slip out of focus, by habit I will punch in the distracting site, realise I need to log in and go "Oh yeah, not now" and then get back to work. It's like a focus cue for when my brain goes on auto-pilot. I find I check far less often now because my brain knows there's no reward there.