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Erm, why is this a "rut"? Perhaps he just genuinely doesn't want to do that half-marathon? Motivations change, and that's perfectly fine. As for myself, trai
by bsder 4y ago
Erm, why is this a "rut"? Perhaps he just genuinely doesn't want to do that half-marathon? Motivations change, and that's perfectly fine.
As for myself, training for a half-marathon certainly isn't something enjoyable and certainly not something I'd have high motivation to do. Even if something got me started down that path, it wouldn't take much opposition to stop. And, I certainly wouldn't do it more than once.
If the task that were something inherently enjoyable, but now you didn't want to do it, that would be more like a "rut".
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- bckr 4y agoI think it's clear he still wants to do it. But exercising consistently is extremely hard to start doing for many, many people. And for good cause. You're expending energy in a way that doesn't aid short-term survival. You're designed not to do this. It requires a hard override of instinct from the prefrontal cortex and related executive function areas over your autopilot brain. That makes it, almost by definition, really hard to do even if you want it really bad.
- s1k3 4y agoSubstitute half marathon for any sort of self improvement activity that is hard. People do want it.