motivation

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

Some of the levers are names, some of them are stories, some of them are simply pictures or feelings, with no words attached. They are happy and sad, inspirational and cautionary, meaningful and trivial, but they all have one thing in common — each and every one of them has the power to move me…I mean things which can move me — which can impart mom... See more

I mean, you’re (Offscreen) probably not making a ton of money publishing an indie magazine, right? So why do you do it? Because you feel it in your bones. This must exist.

In an ideal world, one’s own personal intuition or radar is the same thing as the force that motivates them.

Discipline is superior to motivation. The former can be trained, the latter is fleeting. You won’t be able to accomplish great things if you’re only relying on motivation.

Most people’s mental models of energy are flawed: they think there’s a ‘tank’ of energy that gets depleted as you spend it. This may be roughly true for physical energy, but mental energy is different: spending mental energy on things that you consider productive or important gives you more mental energy for other things: a positive feedback loop.

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