Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump

Re:Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a ... by mortenjorck on Sunday January 23, 2011 @12:26AM (#2131852)

6. Commit publicly.

Gave me an idea.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131849

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Re:Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a ... by askbjoernhansen on Sunday January 23, 2011 @03:58AM (#2132086)

Wasn't there research published sometime last year showing the opposite to be true? (When you tell other people your goal) or what you are doing/going to do, you internalize "I'm doing it" and then ... don't!).

I know for me it's true -- I'm much more likely to get the things completed that I haven't told others that I'm working on.

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Re:Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a ... by JonnieCache on Sunday January 23, 2011 @07:18AM (#2132298)

Yup, it was Derek Silvers in a TED talk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHopJHSlVo4

Well worth watching. This one is < 4 minutes. Cites his sources.

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Re:Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a ... by AgentConundrum on Sunday January 23, 2011 @08:25AM (#2132364)

Blog post mentioned at the end, with links to sources and related materials: http://sivers.org/zipit

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