Dan Pink: Action Creates Motivation
First: Just get started. So often we want to wait for the perfect time or conditions to do something. But in reality, the best way to find motivation to do things is to just get started. Acting creates motivation. If you don’t feel like writing, start writing, and then you will feel like writing. Our intuition reverses the sequence. We think we have to feel a certain way to act, when in fact we can act our way into feelings.
Second: Start with generosity. In almost any interaction you have, lead with generosity. It makes us feel better, and there are also massive returns to us. If we make our default setting to be generous, we may have to switch off the default for some people, but most people are worthy of our generosity.
In summary, “Just get started” and “Lead with generosity.”
Simple ideas. Please take them seriously.
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Dan Pink Bio:
Dan?Pink?is the author of five?New York Times?bestsellers, including his latest,?The Power of Regret.?His other books include the?New York Times?bestsellers?When?and?A Whole New Mind?— as well as?the #1?New York Times?bestsellers?Drive?and?To Sell is Human.?Dan’s?books have won multiple awards, have been translated into 42 languages, and have sold millions of copies around the world.
Dan?also hosted and produced “Crowd Control,” a TV series about human behavior on the National Geographic Channel that aired in more than 100 countries. He hosts a popular MasterClass on sales and persuasion, and he appears frequently on NPR, PBS, ABC, CNN, and other TV and radio networks in the US and abroad.
He has been a contributing editor at Fast Company and Wired as well as a business columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. His articles and essays have also appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Slate, and other publications.
Before venturing out on his own 20 years ago,?Dan?worked in several positions in politics and government, including serving as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore from 1995 to 1997.
He received a BA from Northwestern University and a JD from Yale Law School.
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9 个月And in a similar vein (to paraphrase James Clear) we don’t so much rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems. Essentially change isn’t (totally) about ambition or effort, but about modifying our environment to drive change and increase motivation. For example, I used to set my running shoes and gym clothes next to my bed in a manner where I basically trip over them as a means to help motivate me to work out till the habit of working out stuck. Action -> Motivation!
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9 个月Clear commitment is key. As is knowing your why. I didn’t feel like going for a run this morning, in fact I nearly talked myself out of it. But then I remembered that it is climbing season, and my fitness level strongly impacts my performance and joy of climbing. My future self will be glad I ran today. And I know the first mile is hard. Then I get in the groove. I’m back from my run, happy to have kept my promise to myself. It builds self trust, diminishes regret.
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9 个月Important to recognize that this works for some, not others, and mental state is a key factor. Case in point is Depression. Bootstrapping is not feasible here, as in many cases where the primary tool for this approach to work is seriously hobbled. Thoughts? ??