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727: How to Start Something New and See it Through with Michael Bungay Stanier

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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The Commitment Stage

Ano, why is it so hard for me to make progress on a goal that actually kicks the boxes for me? And here's that kind of the deepest inside around this, you're actually more committed to the status quo than you realize. The one thing is you're weighing up the prizes and punishments of the choice. Te the reward, or rather, the cost of your not taking this on, is more significant than the prize of embracing the status. Then yu got to do it again, this time imagining you are fully committed to the worthy goal. You then go, imagine i didn't take this on i walked ii, walk up to the edge, and then i walk away

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