newsflash buddy “motivation” is actually a metric for the strength of the narratives/personal myths you tell yourself
In an ideal world, one’s own personal intuition or radar is the same thing as the force that motivates them.
Charles Broskoski • Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
Of course, the stories you tell yourself are useless if you don’t take action. “No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess,” the psychologist William James wrote, no matter how good one’s stories may be, “if one [does not] act, one’s life may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” One’s life, as James puts it, “is an aggregate of
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