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This don't make no sense. You still got to be motivated to do the routine that has supposedly removed motivation.
by purplezooey 8y ago
This don't make no sense. You still got to be motivated to do the routine that has supposedly removed motivation.
- elboru 8y agoThe title is misleading, if you read the article the author doesn't try to convince us that motivation doesn't exist, but that motivation is not necessary to get things done.
- coldtea 8y agoIf you constraint motivation to mean "absolutely anything that makes you do something" then yes, it doesn't make sense. You still need to convince yourself to send a signal from your brain to do something, and one can say that that requires "motivation" too. But that's not how most people use the term motivation, or whine about "not having motivation" mean. The whole point of the distinction in the post is between waiting to feel motivated (as in "to positively look forward/like/inspired to do the thing") vs just doing it, not giving a shit for how you feel. As a crude example: a writer could wait until they feel "motivated" to sit down and write. Another could just set a schedule that has him sitting down every weekday 9-5, and writing something, anything, whether they feel motivated or not. The second we usually don't call "motivation", just discipline.