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Ep 45: Neurodivergence and a 9th burrito, with special guest Brandon Tessers

The Executive Function Podcast

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How to Talk About Motivation

Laziness and motivated is literally just a way to say, yes, you didn't complete the thing that you intended to complete. If no other variables changed whatsoever, but I completed the thing, that's the only thing that shifts. We end up with every single time is because I'm lazy, or it's because I'm motivated. And then we chase down these lazy and motivated things, which are useful in some ways, but don't really exist,. There's just constructs, right? So I like to talk about motivation in two different ways. One is incentive. Another is energy.

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