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Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero

Action Creates Motivation

Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero

Eddie Pinero

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9585 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We tend to think of motivation as the spark that gets us going, igniting our rational for moving forward and causing us to jump off the couch and enthusiastically push toward our goals.

But what if, as Mark Manson states in his book, "The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck" action is what creates motivation? That by simply moving we are putting ourselves in position to manufacture the small wins that ultimately define our success.

Maybe we missed the mark, and rather than needing a full understanding of the destination, the important thing is that we simply begin taking steps.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero. In this episode, we're going to talk about Mark Manson's we tend to think about, you know, being inspired to do X, Y, or Z, right? To take over the world.

0:40.9

It starts with a glimmer of hope, an idea, something that gets you out of bed, something

0:46.8

to get you rolling, a motivational concept. And then from there, the action sort of occurs, right?

0:55.0

Steps are taken.

0:56.0

Well, in Mark Manson's book, which I just read on the other podcast, and I always, it's not a big deal for 99.9% of the world, but I'm just going to give a disclaimer, I always picture like a mom going to school with her kids and like

1:11.6

me just dropping an F bomb and her being like, oh my God. So I just, you know, it's called the subtle

1:16.3

art of not giving a fuck. And it's an interesting book because it's about, it's not about what you'd

1:23.1

think, right? It's not a book about not caring. It's a book about caring about the right things.

1:28.5

You know, I talk about essentialism all the time. It's pretty much essentialism, but wittier and kind of a, you know, a more fun read.

1:38.2

But Mark talks about this concept, and I really like the way it's articulated, right? Motivation and then you act, right? But he says,

1:48.8

no, sometimes it's just doing and then you become motivated. The answer is in the steps, right? The

1:56.2

encouragement, the self-belief, it manifests by just moving, by just trusting yourself to figure it out um and it's funny

2:06.0

i mean it's nothing that we haven't talked about before on this podcast but the more i've been

2:11.2

you know diving into this genre of of books there's only i to you, like five concepts and they're just dressed

2:19.9

up and, you know, it's all about how they're told in the stories. And this one happened to really

2:25.9

hit home with me. You know, you can wait for the motivation and then hope to act or you can act

2:32.9

and let the motivation come to you.

2:34.3

You can be the creator.

2:35.4

You can be the doer. And you're just in control that way. And, you know, first thing I did was think about, well, Eddie, you know, have you ever implemented this? And yeah, there's been a million times where it's almost like the thing where you don't know exactly what to do. so you sit and you plan, and you be, you know, you're overly methodical and you wait.

2:56.4

As opposed to just trying something, and then you get like a little glimpse of, oh, okay, this could work, this could work, and then that alone is a spark.

3:07.4

Right? You are, in a way, manufacturing wins. Right. This could work. And then that alone is a spark.

3:07.6

Right.

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