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Even when you are working on something you love it can be hard to stay motivated. It's important to recognise when your motivation is dipping and switch to som
by mtkd 17y ago
Even when you are working on something you love it can be hard to stay motivated.
It's important to recognise when your motivation is dipping and switch to something else or take a break.
Too often I forget this and keep pressing on regardless - and the task takes twice time it would have if I'd just parked it for a day or two.
- abalashov 17y agoEven when you are working on something you love it can be hard to stay motivated. Too true. I get people telling me all the time that the reason I have motivational problems is because I just don't totally, wholeheartedly love what I do. That's not true. I really do like what I do. It's just that encapsulated in every conceptual appreciation is a lot of work. I think the difference between someone who "loves what they do" vs. someone who approaches what they do rather dispassionately is that in the former case, it's only 90% drudgery/10% fun, as opposed to something more like 98%/2%.