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Best of 2022: Julia Galef | The Benefits of Seeing the World as It Is

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

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Motivation Without Self Deception

You said the biggest problem with the self belief approach to motivation is that you're not supposed to think realistically about risk. 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 required less risk? So let's actually get into this concept of motivation without self deception. You say in such a situation where the only path of ill to you may be having a realistic picture of your odds of success on that path isn't very useful but how often does such a situation actually occur?

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