Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)
Very Bad Wizards
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How to Find Goals You'd Like to Achieve
You don't want to live a lonely life because it's bad for you. Is one of the tricks to find goals that you know you would be proud to achieve? Are we gaming it so that those emotions will be easier to experience by sort of self-selecting into the right kinds? Yeah, there's two ways. No matter what your goal is, as long as... You have to see it as something of some value or it's not going to be a goal. But even for ones that it's really hard to feel pride about initially, if you make yourself feel grateful, but entirely other things, they still decrease the amount that you're going to discount the value of that
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