How to Convince Yourself to Do Hard Things
How do we get out of this narrow spiral? No different than the pilots who needed to broaden their view to get out of inattentional deafness. Or the science that tells us to zoom out and think in third person instead of first person to broaden our perspective and disconnect ourself from the experience. If we find ourselves getting narrow, counteract
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The result: you experience heightened emotional reactions, such as anxiety or fear – and that makes you procrastinate from making a career decision for even longer. You feel worse, and so you do less. Most of us have experienced struggles of this kind. But the good news is that the cycle can be broken, and the fog of uncertainty eliminated.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Daniel Chambliss , an American sociologist, on how top performers feel about hard work:
“At the higher levels of competitive swimming, something like an inversion of attitude takes place. The very features of the sport that the ‘C' swimmer finds unpleasant, the top level swimmer enjoys. What others see as boring—swimming back and forth over a black ... See more
“At the higher levels of competitive swimming, something like an inversion of attitude takes place. The very features of the sport that the ‘C' swimmer finds unpleasant, the top level swimmer enjoys. What others see as boring—swimming back and forth over a black ... See more
