Welcome back to the Stronger by Science Fireside Chat series. I am your host Greg Knuckles.

Thanks for coming back to this the eighth installment of the fireside chat series.

If this is the first one you're tuning into and you're expecting a lot of

discussion of fitness and science and the things we cover on the normal episodes, you're not going to find it here. We're just

gonna talk about fun things that our listeners have suggested. These are at

least supposed to be pretty fun, light-hearted episodes where we discuss off-topic

subjects. So yeah that's what we're doing here and I figure we'll get on into it.

How are you doing to Day Treks? I am doing well and

quick a quick message for those who have caught our previous fireside chats. The last

couple of times our off- topic topics have been very on topic but

but this time we actually are getting away from that stuff very off topic today.

Yes hopefully I mean, we'll probably accidentally

find a way to get on topic. I'm looking at, I'm looking at the second question here in some of the notes you've jotted down so we'll see what happens.

But yeah, let's get right on into it.

The first question that came in from one of our listeners is, what is the best way to motivate yourself?

Or I guess how we're going to answer it, how do we go about motivating ourselves?

So motivation's tough and I don't purport to have any expertise on this. Like I've never read the motivation literature, but I am a person who has at times needed to become motivated.

And what has always worked for me is, this is kind of a cop out, but just trying to limit how much effortful motivation I really have to conjure up.

So, you know, I think we're pretty lucky, given that most of the tasks we have to do are things that interest us and things that we believe should be done.

Like we don't have some like higher up boss who's just telling us to do busy work.

Yeah.

Aside from Lindsay, who can be very tough.

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