Flawed Strategies Crushing Your Creative Focus

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Why Your Creative Focus Keeps Failing

Waiting until you Feel Like it

Visualizing only the Outcome

Heavy Reliance on Extrinsic Rewards

Setting Extreme, all-or-nothing Goals

Overload of Motivation”

Ignoring the Friction in your Life

Failure to Track and Celebrate Small Wins

Over-Complicated Systems and Tools

Fighting your Biology

Misinterpreting Friction as a Lack of Passion

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We tend to think of motivation as a battery we constantly need to charge with a great pep talk, unwavering self-discipline, or vivid visualization of future reward. However, sheer brute force and waiting to "find your passion" or for "the time" before starting anything is an utterly maladaptive way of approaching anything in life. Science in the 21st Century has clearly shown that most common motivational tactics actually work against our favor and only make us feel burnt out, intimidated, and like defective human beings.
 

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