good thread on motivation and creation
As a part-time author, I feel this too. It's one of the reasons I harp on / joke ("joke") about #FightFor15
I started writing fiction on 1 Jan 2011, and it took about 9 years until my labor paid off to the point where I earned minimum wagehttps://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1293549792593936384 …
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2/ One thing you learn in dog training (and in management) is that the ability to successfully reward behaviors (and thus generate more of them) is ENTIRELY dependent on the duration between behavior and reward. A dog that sits and gets reward 1 second later learns far better >
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3/ than a dog that gets a reward 10-15 seconds later. So too with rewarding an employee the same day or week he does great work, vs an end of year bonus.
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4/ Much of what we do, as we navigate through life, is "train" ourselves. This is hard when the rewards (being buff, retiring in style, having a nice house, winning literary awards) happen 5 / 10 / 30 years after the effort.
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5/ The only "technology" I've ever stumbled across that makes this easier is to try to redirect your thinking so that the EXPERIENCE of working becomes the reward. Compliment yourself for every set done in the gym, every page of fiction written, every deposit into the IRA.
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6/ excellent point! (he said in a half-meta way) https://twitter.com/sadmoonanalog/status/1293554982734696448 …
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