1. Fiction. This is where your myth, hero's journey, etc comes in. Elon Musk read lots of sci-fi growing up. 2. History. This is also a trick answer - much of

1. Fiction. This is where your myth, hero's journey, etc comes in. Elon Musk read lots of sci-fi growing up. 2. History. This is also a trick answer - much of history is fiction, especially autobiographies. Motivational coaches use one or the other. Often stories of themselves. Sometimes of specific people. It's part myth, but don't question it too much or you'll lose the buzz. A practical approach is also reading stories of people in similar situations. Lots of documentaries and books on tech giants or people like John Carmack & Romero. Startup School videos got me motivated through 100-hour weeks for a year, but after a point you deplete that motivational source. 3. Get into flow. There's specific rules around this [1]. If you want to 'gamify' things, this is how you do it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)