How To Maintain Motivation While Working Toward Your Ultimate Goals
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People are bold when they talk about their “ultimate” goals.“Cure cancer.”“Organize the world’s information.”“Stop terrorism.”These are big goals. Huge. Daunting. But the road to achieving them is made up of thousands of smaller steps.We tend to focus on where we are now and what we can achieve today.But for the long-term, the pace of progress (the compounding rate) matters much more than the starting point.Here’s how to up your pace and stay motivated in the long run:Optimizing your growth rate requires a system.To see the overall system — from the big picture all the way to the individual minute-to-minute steps — I look to physics.There’s a concept known as a fractal. It’s a mathematical way of modeling structures where the overall whole pattern is made up endless similar patterns at increasingly smaller (...)
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