406: How Successful People See the World with Emily Balcetis

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🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How Successful People See the World
with Emily Balcetis

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I ran out of laundry detergent last week and couldn’t motivate myself to walk 20 steps to the store to buy more. Why?

I can lecture for hours, interview an author for the podcast, answer 70+ emails, and spend time with all three of my kids in one day, but the laundry detergent errand felt impossible.

I have periods of manic productivity with breakthroughs at every turn, but other times when the most mundane chores of life are overwhelming.

Why? Where does motivation come from? Why does it waver? On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a psychologist who can help you find your fuel for life.

Listen & Learn:

How the fantasy of a goal can sometimes create enough pleasure to reduce motivation to actually achieve it
How to avoid under-stimulation without accidentally welcoming overwhelm
When it can be helpful to look back and anchor past successes
When it makes more sense to focus on the future, the next step

Links & Resources:

Emily Balcetis is a social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on people's perception of the world and how their motivations and emotions influence it. She is the author of the new book: Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World.

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0:00.0	Many times the things that we care most about in life we lack motivation to achieve.
0:08.8	It's this weird paradox where we want to be in great shape, but then 7 a.m. rolls around and we
0:14.3	hit snooze on the alarm and we miss that yoga class miss that cycling class miss that
0:18.6	trip to the gym and the cycle repeats three four five days in a row and suddenly we just can't find a motivation.
0:25.4	We want to eat better, but then 11 PM rolls around and we order takeout and binge watch Netflix into the middle of the night.
0:32.4	We want to accomplish things at work
0:33.6	financially and professionally and things that matter to us in terms of projects,
0:37.6	but we procrastinate and procrastinate to the 11th hour when the only
0:42.3	possible outcome is C-level work A level work is no longer possible because the time frame just doesn't allow it.
0:48.5	Why do we do this stuff? I don't know. Why do we struggle with motivating for these kinds of things when we find motivation to do negative
0:54.4	behaviors all the time? I'm not sure. I'm a really motivated person and what that means is about 51%
1:00.2	of the time I'm motivated and the other 49% of the time I'm wallowing around
1:05.0	useless fiddling around the house you know organizing the desktop on my
1:08.7	computer trying to figure out how to just simply get started last week I ran out of laundry soap for about four days.
1:15.6	I couldn't seem to get up the motivation to take the 20 steps from the front door of my apartment
1:20.3	down to the store.
1:21.3	I just can't explain it. I can't explain why sometimes I'll go on a
1:24.4	flurry, just a manic flurry of work for 10 days straight and literally accomplished
1:29.0	months worth of work and then suddenly I can't buy laundry soap. What Gives?
1:33.0	I don't know on this week's podcast.
1:35.0	You'll meet a psychologist who has dedicated her life's work
1:38.0	to the study of motivation, intrinsic, and extrinsic,
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