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Is it bad to coerce yourself to do unpleasant things? (with Matt Goldenberg)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

How to Motivate Yourself to Do Something

Some self-coercion strategies are negative like those two, but they aren't necessarily negative. If you want them to have some sort of moral accounting for your actions, what's good and bad, I would call that much more coercive. Whereas if it's more a desire partner who's helping you connect with what you really want and why you really want it, I would say it's much less coercive.

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