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How do I get going when I do not feel like it?

35 passages from Dai's podcast transcripts, articles and pages. Episode passages link to the exact moment in the audio. This is gathered from his own words, not written about him.

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  • Article · Why starting over keeps failing after 40

    Why starting over keeps failing after 40

    Ask a man over 40 how many times he has started again and he will usually laugh before he answers. Five. Six. He owns the equipment. He knows what to do. FIG. 01 A man who gets six weeks in and stops is telling you about the fuel, not the engine. Ask a man over 40 how many times he has started again and he will usually laugh before he ans...

  • Article · The bit where a goal becomes a want

    Why starting over keeps failing after 40

    ...it slightly sheepishly, as though it is embarrassing to have become that person. What produces that shift is not motivation. It is having felt better for long enough to associate the behaviour with the feeling. That takes longer than most programs run for, which is most of why most programs fail. So the practical question is not how to be...

  • Article · Common questions

    What do you actually want? I had no answer

    ...answer never sticks. The first hour is you performing thinking; the useful material arrives after that. Why do I feel unmotivated even though everything is going well? Because external success and self-concordant goals are different things. Sheldon and Elliot's work found that goals adopted out of guilt or outside pressure do not sustain...

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