After all, it will take willpower to work out every other day, and willpower is like a muscle (I hope!).
Jacob Lagerros likes to say it isn’t a question of how hard you work, but whether you’re pouring your energy into things that are ‘life-affirming’ or not. If you are, then the reward signal for effort is positive (“look at what great things I’ve achieved!”), if you are not, then the reward signal is negative (“Now I’m more tired and still I don’t have any of the things I really care about”).
Sam Altman has similar startup advice (“A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn’t won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.”) where effort that turns into a victory is effort that a team wants to reinvest in more victories.
Jacob Lagerros likes to say it isn’t a question of how hard you work, but whether you’re pouring your energy into things that are ‘life-affirming’ or not. If you are, then the reward signal for effort is positive (“look at what great things I’ve achieved!”), if you are not, then the reward signal is negative (“Now I’m more tired and still I don’t have any of the things I really care about”).
Sam Altman has similar startup advice (“A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn’t won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.”) where effort that turns into a victory is effort that a team wants to reinvest in more victories.