A lot of people struggle with motivation and there is an entire book about this, it’s called the motivation myth. The key insight from the motivation myth is that the concept of motivation it kind of have it wrong. We automatically think that motivation leads to action. You need to feel like doing something to do the thing. But what Jeff Hayden says in the book and he sides of bunch of evidence to prove this, it tends to be the other way around. Action leads to motivation. When you do something and you experience a small success or a small win, that is the thing that feels the fire of motivation. It’s not the idea of I need to feel like doing a thing before I actually do The thing is like, I’m going to do the thing, I’m going to get a small success, and then that will make me feel like doing the thing a second time around. 
A study was conducted In 1998 at Columbia University by a professor, Claudia M Muller. She took a large group of 5th graders and had them work on numerous puzzles by themselves. Now these were very challenging puzzles, for regardless of how well each child did here, she was told that they scored very well, that they did better. Most of the other kids afterwards, half of these students were told that they scored high because they worked hard, while the other half were told that it was all because there were smart and gifted. Then they presented each student with 3 more types of puzzles to work on, easy ones, medium difficulty ones and extremely challenging ones, and what they found was very interesting.

The students were told that they did well because they were smart spent the majority of their time on the easy puzzles. They spent almost no time on the extremely challenging puzzles and spend much less time overall trying to solve any of the puzzles, which was a sign of lower levels of motivation and stop it all off when asked whether or not they enjoy the experiment. They said that it wasn’t that fun for them. On the other hand, the students who told that they did well because they worked hard spent the majority of their time focused on the harder puzzles. They also spend a lot more time overall attempting to solve any of the puzzles, which was assigned of an increasing levels of motivation and its hospital off after the experiment. He said that the actually enjoyed the entire experience. So what can we learn from this study? Well, there is a concept called the locus of Control, which is essentially that the Greek to which you believe you have control over your life.

That’s the curse of having an external locus of control when you feel like nothing you do matters. You stop working. You stop trying, because what’s the point of trying when the world is conspiring against you, right? So how do we adopt and internal locus of control so that we can start feeling motivated all of the time? Will they found that the best way to do so is by simply solving problems in your own life and then taking some time and appreciating the fact that it was your actions that solve this problem? I’ll give you an example just to make things more clear. 

Let’s say you are someone who struggles with falling asleep. So you go to some research and you find out if you get some more sunlight in the morning. If you only use your bed for sleeping, and if you install a blue light filter on your phone, that should drastically increase your ability to sleep faster. When bedtime comes around. You do all of those things and low and behold. You find yourself sleeping 15 minutes faster than before. When you notice this improvement, you need to say to yourself, wow, it was because of the changes I make because of the effort I put in that I am now able to sleep better. It’s that simple. 

Build up that belief that you are in control of your destiny, that you have an internal locus of control and you will never have issues with motivation in your life again.

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