Leveraging Incremental Progress to Level Up Your Life with Steve Kamb
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Steve Kamb, rebel leader of Nerd Fitness joins us to talk about the power of using incremental progress to level up your life.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Lessons learned from The Legend of Zelda
- Applying the progress principle to our biggest goals
- Structuring your environment to induce flow states
- Finding the distinctive identity and fingerprint in our work
- Removing the need for willpower and motivation
- Determining the type of game that you want to play
- The power of creating an alter ego and character to level up your life
QUOTES
Eventually doesn’t happen. Tomorrow is not guarantee.
I look at nerd as a very positive term
Screw motivation, cultivate discipline.
Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerdfitness, a global community to help desk jockeys, nerds, and average Joes level up their lives. He’s also the author of Level Up Your Life
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| 0:00.0 | I actually kind of built my life as if it was a video game. |
| 0:04.0 | I turned myself into a character, created a series of quests and missions to complete with treasures |
| 0:11.0 | and rewards if I were to complete certain missions |
| 0:16.3 | accountability or negative consequences if I were to skip out on doing certain things |
| 0:20.3 | so I tried to remove as much of the need for willpower and as much of the |
| 0:26.6 | need for motivation as humanly possible because I know if I only relied on those two |
| 0:31.9 | things stuff never would have got done. |
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