From the course: Beating Procrastination

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The right motivation trumps willpower

The right motivation trumps willpower

From the course: Beating Procrastination

The right motivation trumps willpower

- Let's talk about the motivation piece for a moment, how do we get more of that? - The first part of the book is about motivation because I think that if you have the right motivation, then you don't need willpower at all. So it's much more important to find right motivation then to boost the willpower. I don't need to push myself to do talks because I really love to do talks. So it's a much more important to me to do things that I don't need to push myself to. So, and the core of motivation that I'm trying to cover in my book is that basically we have three kinds of motivation. First one is extrinsic motivation, and there is another huge meta analysis about motivation, and it seems that extrinsic motivation doesn't work at all. It worked for manual activities but it doesn't work for activities that you need your brain, so it doesn't work for creative and cognitive tasks. So then we have intrinsic motivation but I cover…

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