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Ep. 107: How Do I Stay Motivated on Long-Term Projects?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Integrating Long Term Project Achievement into Your Identity

The first one is the hardest. You trust that you can get to success. The second one is much easier. Why? Because you have now integrated into your conception of self, i am someone who can stick with something hard. And one or two years later, maybe three years later, get really big results out of it. Now it's much easier to do that again. I was motivated earlier in my grad student career when i read steve martin's profess a memoir born standing up. He defined diligence not just as coming back to the thing that you're trying to get better at again and again, but also saying no to everything else. It was really clear that from early in

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