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The Tai Lopez Show

336: Rebalance the Reward/Pain Ratio to Kill Procrastination

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

Business

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Learn how to rebalance your own ideas of the reward/pain ratio, to get your butt out of the chair and get to work, on today’s episode of the Tai Lopez Show.
If you struggle with procrastination, this episode will give you the tools that you need to kick that bad habit for good. The problem comes from a mental bias which, once you define it and are aware of it, you can adjust to show yourself how much the momentary pain is worth it for the reward at the end of the tunnel.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And as you focus on the reward and you visualize the reward, it tips the scales and it's like that's what it will get you to slide out of the chair off your butt from pressing.

0:14.0

Remember, keep dying the prize. The prize, whatever the prize is and it should be tangible. Don't say broad things like whole happiness.

0:23.0

It's too broad. Don't say, oh, life's going to be better. Oh, I'll make enough money. Pick a number.

0:29.0

When I make 100 grand a year, I'll be able to do blank. Go visit my family on Thanksgiving, you know, without stress.

0:39.0

I'll be able to contribute to this charity. I'll be able to buy this car or this nicer place for real. I'll be able to put my kids in a nicer school.

0:47.0

You know, that is a tangible, specific benefit. And so that'll start balancing out that reward paint ratio.

0:57.0

And as you focus on the reward and you visualize the reward, it tips the scales and it's like that's what it will get you to slide out of the chair off your butt from pressing.

1:06.0

It's a reading. People all read because they associate with a pain because the school system reprogrammed our brain to associate reading with pain.

1:17.0

Well, for me, it's not because every time I read, I'm advanced in whatever it is I'm doing, whether it be business, making money, it's brought me so many tangible benefits.

1:28.0

But when I see a book, I'm like excited. And so I've changed the association patterns in my brain. So books appear to me to be this pleasure thing is, you know, no pain. They're just rewards. And so I can read a lot.

1:43.0

So this is a fundamental concept that very few people grasp.

1:58.0

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