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The Tai Lopez Show

335: How to Always Be Motivated to Work

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

Business

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Very few people understand the the risk/reward bias in human brains, and how it can hold you back from achieving what you want to achieve.
Many people have an inaccurate understanding of the amount of pain, or work, that it will take for them to achieve their goals, as compared to the amount of happiness it will bring them when they finally do achieve those goals.
This is why humans procrastinate.
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0:00.0

Remember keep the eye on the prize whatever the prize is and it should be tangible

0:04.1

Don't say broad things like oh happiness life's gonna be better. Oh make enough money pick a number when I make a hundred grand a year

0:10.8

I'll be able to do blank

0:18.6

What's the best way to avoid procrastination well simple you got to stop thinking about the work that you have to do because then

0:26.2

You'll want to keep procrastinating too many people focus on okay when should I do this?

0:31.4

How should I do it more efficiently? No forget all that at first what you have to do is only think about the thing

0:36.2

You want the end game result

0:38.5

There's an old saying keep your eye on the prize people miss interpret what that means you got to take it literally

0:43.2

What's the prize and ask to be specific so you got to be like because I'm gonna replace my old Mitsubishi Galant with a Mercedes or I'm going to

0:51.7

Go to Hawaii on a vacation or I'm going to

0:57.4

Never again

0:58.9

Have to wake up with an alarm clock

1:01.8

Because I'm a start-mile company all the things are procrastinating about procrastinating about come from

1:07.6

Basically a misalignment in your brain of something that I call the risk versus

1:12.6

Sorry, the reward versus pain ratio. So the second

1:17.2

Pain becomes too much of your focus whether it be okay. I'm gonna have to you know

1:24.4

work hard to start a business or

1:27.6

The complete a new project that's pain right when you focus on pain sure you'll think about the reward

1:34.2

You want to get a raise you want to start your own business you want to have more freedom

1:38.4

But when the reward is not

1:41.0

Contemplated enough if it's not visualized then the pain gets too high

1:45.2

It's like a scale when I say you know the reward pain ratio and so the scale when the pain gets too high and the reward gets too low

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