260 - The Science of Stuck - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
The Myth of Motivation
There's no such thing as an unmotivated person our brains are always motivated. Motivation is a mindset issue but that's secondary first and foremost motivation is a physiological issue. If you're nervous system is in a survival response fight flighter freeze. You're not going to be able to do your thing no matter how many affirmations you chant or what workbooks you try to do. So if we don't know that motivation is first physiological and cognitive seconds we're going to miss out on a whole bunch of stuff that's really important for getting the job done. We need shadow intelligence which is my favorite thing you know Carl Jung said until we make the unconscious conscious it will direct our
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