How to Always Be Motivated to Work
The Tai Lopez Show
Tai Lopez
4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
“Your goals and prizes should be tangible” - Tai Lopez
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Very few people understand the the risk/reward bias in human brains, and how it can hold you back from achieving what you want to achieve.
Many people have an inaccurate understanding of the amount of pain, or work, that it will take for them to achieve their goals, as compared to the amount of happiness it will bring them when they finally do achieve those goals.
This is why humans procrastinate.
If they really understood the value, to them, of achieving what they were striving for in all its detail, they would not procrastinate but would be motivated to do the amount of work necessary to achieve that goal.
This episode shows you how you can change that subs-conscious misunderstanding in your own life, to help you overcome the instinct to procrastinate, and rather get down to work creating the life of your dreams!
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Points to Keep In Mind
- Your goals and prizes should be tangible
- The best way to avoid procrastination is to stop thinking about the work, and start thinking about the thing you want
- People’s tendency to procrastinate comes from a misunderstanding of the pain to reward ratio
- Find a way to really see, and keep constantly on your mind, your goals and the reason why you are working hard to achieve them
- Don’t make things too complicated with different theories, ideas and techniques. Just focus on the end game
- Change your perception of the reward/pain ratio, and understand how worth it the pain is
- Build associations with rewards for the work that you do
- Don’t focus as much on the process as compared with getting down to real, hard work
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| 0:00.0 | Remember keep the eye on the prize whatever the prize is and it should be tangible |
| 0:04.0 | Don't say broad things like oh happiness life's gonna be better. Oh make enough money pick a number when I make a hundred grand a year |
| 0:10.8 | I'll be able to do blank |
| 0:18.6 | What's the best way to avoid procrastination? |
| 0:21.6 | Well simple you got to stop thinking about the work that you have to do because then you'll want to keep procrastinating |
| 0:27.8 | Too many people focus on okay. When should I do this? How should I do it more efficiently? |
| 0:32.5 | No forget all that at first what you have to do is only think about the thing you want the end game result |
| 0:38.4 | There's an old saying keep your eye on the prize people misinterpret what that means you got to take it literally |
| 0:43.4 | What's the prize and ask to be specific? So you got to be like because I'm gonna replace my old Mitsubishi Galant with a Mercedes or I'm going to |
| 0:52.2 | Go to Hawaii on a vacation or I'm going to |
| 0:56.6 | um |
| 0:57.6 | Never again |
| 0:59.2 | Have to wake up with an alarm clock |
| 1:01.9 | Because I'm a start-mine company all the things are procrastinating about procrastinating about come |
| 1:07.0 | From basically a misalignment in your brain of something that I call the risk versus |
| 1:12.8 | Sorry, the reward versus pain ratio. So the second |
| 1:17.5 | Pain |
| 1:18.5 | Becomes too much of your focus whether it be okay. I'm gonna have to you know work hard |
| 1:25.8 | To start a business or the complete a new project that's pain |
| 1:30.8 | Right when you focus on pain sure you'll think about the reward you want to get a raise you want to start your own business |
| 1:36.8 | You want to have more freedom |
| 1:38.7 | But when the reward is not |
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