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Motivation is absolutely a skill that can be mastered. Being motivated to get up and run at 6:00 am is not telling yourself that you have to, it’s learning how
by cirgue 8y ago
Motivation is absolutely a skill that can be mastered. Being motivated to get up and run at 6:00 am is not telling yourself that you have to, it’s learning how to want to do it. Same thing with anything else. You have to learn how to connect the desire for some end state (getting the project completed, getting a faster mile time, etc) with the present. Habits are great, but excercising the capacity to want to make shit happen outside of your normal routine is also a skill worth developing.
- matwood 8y agoI think linking it to wanting can be problematic when people are trying to start. I get up every single day at 6am and go straight to the gym. To say I want to do this makes it sound like I have some insight, I'm crazy or I'm a 'morning' person. None of those are true. The alarm goes off, and I get up. There is no want or motivation in that moment, it is only discipline. I do it because working out every day improves my physical and mental health. My cognition is better. Starting each day off doing something I don't really want to do (getting up early), sets the tone of the day to one of getting the things done that need to get done. > You have to learn how to connect the desire for some end state (getting the project completed, getting a faster mile time, etc) with the present. IME, this is useful when deciding you want to make a change, but not something that is front and center when the alarm goes off early in the morning ;)