473: Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More by James Clear

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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James Clear is an author and photographer. He writes about behavioral psychology, habit formation, and performance improvement. His work has been covered by dozens of major media outlets including CBS, Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, TIME Magazine, and more. He studies successful people across a wide range of disciplines--entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, and more--to uncover the habits and routines that make these people the best at what they do. Then, he shares what he learns in his popular email newsletter. Episode 473: Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More by James Clear (Success). The original post is located here: http://jamesclear.com/power-of-environment Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 473.
0:03.4	Motivation is overvalued, environment often matters more.
0:07.1	By JamesClear of JamesClear.com and of Justin Mollick,
0:10.3	how's it going old friend?
0:11.7	I say old friend because old or OLD stands for Optimal Living Daily.
0:15.9	If you're new here, this is where I narrate blogs for you and sometimes books.
0:19.6	And we actually have four podcasts in the Optimal Living Daily podcast network
0:23.3	where we read to you from popular blogs.
0:25.5	And today I'm back with a post from JamesClear,
0:27.9	a super popular productivity and habits blogger.
0:30.8	His content is awesome.
0:32.5	So let's get right to his post and start optimizing your life.
0:36.6	Motivation is overvalued, environment often matters more.
0:44.0	By JamesClear of JamesClear.com.
0:47.7	It can be tempting to blame failure on a lack of willpower or a scarcity of talent
0:52.6	into attribute success to hard work, effort and grit.
0:56.7	To be sure, those things matter.
0:58.7	What is interesting, however, is that if you examine how human behavior has been shaped over time,
1:03.3	you discover that motivation and even talent is often overvalued.
1:07.7	In many cases, the environment matters more.
1:11.0	Let me share an example that surprised me when I first learned of it.
1:14.5	The shape of human behavior.
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