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May 2019
38m 25s

Why do we struggle with motivation?

Ali & Taimur Abdaal
About this episode
This episode is all about motivation. We start by introducing our ideal state of 'motivation is a myth' and the idea that discipline is all we *should* need to get stuff done. But then having recognised this, we spend the rest of the episode discussing both high-level strategy and low-level hacks for motivating ourselves to get stuff done. See Priv ... Show More
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