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Ep. 256: Start with Discipline
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Importance of Internally Powered Goals in the Deep Life Stack
Your mindset is crucial when it comes to setting goals and achieving them. Having an internally powered goal mindset, rather than being externally driven, leads to more rigorous values and effective routines./nIf you don't have an internal internally powered goal mindset, you will struggle to find control and calm and fail to consistently achieve your goals./nBuilding plans for transforming different aspects of your life solely around externally powered goals will result in short-term motivation followed by failure./nEach layer of the deep life stack requires a mindset that embraces both internally powered goals and discipline./nThe first discipline layer involves choosing two or three important areas of your life and establishing daily disciplines that are meaningful and manageable.
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