We should applaud a child who shows defiant, self-righteous stubbornness and reward a student who finds a way to get things done by working around the rules. We should reward initiative, congratulate people for self-motivation, celebrate when an infant wants to feed herself.The choices that are most powerful in generating motivation are decisions that do two things: They convince us we're in control and they endow our actions with larger meaning.But they psychologically powerful because the subversives saw the rebellions as evidence that they were still in control of their own lives. These small acts of defiance were, in the grand scheme of things, relatively minor.To teach ourselves to self-motivate more easily, we need to learn to see our choices not just as expressions of control but also as affirmations of our values and goals.If you can link something hard to a choice you care about, it makes the task easier.That's how they learn to believe they can do them.
We praise people for doing things that are hard."Internal locus of control has been linked with academic success, higher self-motivation and social maturity, lower incidences of stress and depression, and longer life span," a team of psychologists wrote in the journal Problems and Perspectives in Management in 2012.Motivation is triggered by making choices that demonstrate to ourselves that we are in control.When people believe they are in control, they tend to work harder and push themselves more.People who know how to self-motivate, according to studies, earn more money than their peers, report higher levels of happiness, and saw they are more satisfied with their families, jobs, and lives.Productivity, put simply, is the name we give our attempts to figure out the best uses of our energy, intellect, and time as we try to seize the most meaningful rewards with the least wasted effort.The following are my favorite quotes from Charles Duhigg's Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business.
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