This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1589, How to Keep Going by Greg Audino of Gregaudino.com

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How to Keep Going by Gregaudino of Gregaudino.com

What is it that separates those who keep going from those who don't? In times of hardship,

how is it that some people find the motivation to continue on while others fall by the wayside

and start on a new path? A common hardship that many people face is a lack of motivation.

It's easy to wish for a rush of motivation to just wash over us and breathe new light into us,

but there aren't just a couple of problems with that. It takes a lot for us to pull ourselves

up by our bootstraps and keep going. A lot more than the self-help idiots who just yell,

don't quit at us, allow credit for. While hard work is something that people very much

pride themselves on, especially in modern day America, this is more a product of nurture than nature.

By nature our brains aren't conditioned to seek out challenging ways of doing things.

They're conditioned to restore energy and seek out the easiest way of doing things as possible.

Finding the motivation to get through challenging times requires a little extra.

But what is that extra? Well, let's lighten things up and talk about my very favorite subject

for a second. The puppies. How is it that we're able to train puppies who barely have any means

of understanding us to perform certain tasks with as much precision as another human would?

There are two elements, reward and repetition. If you reward a puppy or many animals for that matter

for performing any given task, they'll be more likely to repeat it because they associate it with

a reward. The more times it's repeated with the reward, the more simple the task becomes for

the puppy, eventually becoming like second nature. The good news is that we have an awful lot in

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