Julia Galef | The Benefits of Seeing the World as It Is
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
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Motivation Without Self Deception
The biggest problem with the self belief approach to motivation, it becomes impossible to ask questions like is this goal desirable enough to be worth the risk? Are there any goals that would be similarly desirable, require less risk. It implicitly assumes that you don't need to make any decisions that you've already found the one right path and there are no other options out there worth weighing. And so what we should be doing is creating the safe environment in which we can hold on to the possible but actually increase the chances of what's actually probable.
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