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Psychology categorizes #motivation into three areas: biological, social, and cognitive.
Cognitive motivation is the one that can make or break a person. It is the one creates addictive vice and virtue behaviors like binge watching a show vs studying new info to further one’s career.
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Looking back at the example, life is not as smooth sailing. Since at every turn or action there is an obstacle in the way to tip the scale ever so slightly towards quitting.
One’s job is to identify these blockers and put in an action plan how to overcome them.
For example one is hiking along a trail and tree fell on to it, one can either go around, over, or under it.
As one continues on the trail there would have been a stream crossing though the bridge is washed out. Options of tackling the obstacle are going through, jumping over it, or navigating to a different bridge.
These were some examples of dealing with physical blockers, though most of life consists of intangible ones that possibly can be manifested away from physical ones.
For example the hunger is so strong that one cannot think clearly. The solution is to eat something while maintaining one’s sanity i.e. that the food consumed doesn’t trigger another avoidable blocker.
These were simple examples and life consists of an interlinked chain of triggers; find them and tweak them to get the desired result.
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When looking at the performance of desired behaviors, only a fraction of the time, 80-100% of quality is achieved.
The typical approach is to achieve the quantitative behavior and assume that this equates to max quality. Since if one put in the time, sweat, and tears, then it must be correct!?
Let’s say an associate gave you the task to move from point A to point B and you marked the destination on a map with their confirmation. You arrive at point B and there is no associate to be found anywhere, only to learn that the associate actually meant point C.
Now one can question who/what is at fault?
One can play the blame game, but this won’t create an action plan on how to handle a similar problem in the future.
The simplest solution is to first get the goal coordinates in an objective manner directly from the associate. Once this is clear, then invite any suggestions on how the associate would do the task. Since it is a suggestion, this still keeps the playing field open for you to acquire your own strategy.
From the example one sees that getting to point B the quantity was achieved, though the quality was not 100%. To achieve the complete quality, one had to go more quantity.
Ideally, one would structure the quantity in such a way that it stays minimal and passes the quality check. Since each additional start and stop puts a cognitive load. This in return increases the chance of quitting ever so slightly every time. So as long as the scale for completion is tipped in its favor, all is golden.