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Nick T
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some thoughts after reading Max Bennet's "A Brief History of Intelligence": how good you feel about doing some work, and your will to do it in the moment is powered by dopamine. dopamine is released when you feel like you are making progress towards your goals (powers temporal difference learning). I find that if you have total control over your goals, you can hack the motivation: - pick goals where you have total control (e.g. work 5 hours on some outcome, write for 20 minutes, etc - not 'close X customer', 'raise $100k', etc) - make progress obvious - visualise it using paper/spreadsheet/app etc. calculate and account for progress towards your goal - e.g. 5% -> 10%. - will yourself into making the first 0.01% - define exactly what that will entail you to do (e.g. read 1 paragraph, open gmail, clone the repo) - keep reflecting on the progress. let dopamine do the rest in the resulting "flow" state.
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Metaphorical
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the first 0.01% is so much of it, getting past inertia.
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Nick T
@nt
becomes much easier if you realise it’s half the battle and the rest follows naturally. it’s funny that you can subdivide that X% in half until it becomes trivial for anyone.
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Metaphorical
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what did you think of book overall? i think it was my rec?
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Nick T
@nt
It was very good! Thanks for the rec 💯
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Metaphorical
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Great to hear, highly recommended for anyone in AI or even mindfulness, so much good info on how and why we experience the world the way we do.
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