motivation
9 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2020 by BJ Fogg · across every show →
Everything said about motivation, oldest first
Jun 23, 2020 neutral
Dec 13, 2022
Balcetis: Motivation counteracts body weight effects on distance perception
“When people are more motivated to exercise or to make it to that finish line, that motivation can, in a sense, compensate for that effect of their body on their perception of distance. So that even highly motivated people, people who are highly motivated, even…”
Dec 13, 2022 positive
Committed people stay motivated by looking ahead; uncommitted people by looking back
“And what she has found is that people get a burst of motivation or, you know, and performance increases. People engage in the goal-relevant activity at that halfway point if they look towards the finish line. Look towards what separates where I'm at right now …”
Feb 21, 2023
Dr. Lembke: Dopamine Primarily Drives Motivation, Not Pleasure
“Well, it was originally thought that dopamine was primarily related to the experience of pleasure, euphoria, getting high, but a series of important experiments suggest that dopamine may be even more important for motivation, that is our willingness to do the …”
Jun 27, 2023
Gurner: High performers run on obsession, not prolonged forced discipline
“When we are at our best, we're not slogging through. And great People are obsessed and they're not slogging through either. They are driven. They are motivated. They are deeply, deeply engaged. And so I find that oftentimes when we over rely on discipline, tho…”
Jul 9, 2024
Shankar: Set Week-Long Goals to Minimize Predictable Mid-Project Motivation Slumps
“So what Ayelet recommends is to actually just make the middle periods of time as short as physically possible. So rather than setting a year long goal, which we might feel an instinct to do because we want to set a really ambitious goal. And so we're like, let…”
Jul 9, 2024
Shankar: Goal Motivation Predictably Slumps Between Initial Start and Final Stretch
“We don't have stable amounts of motivation over the course of goal pursuit. This is some research by my friend Ayelet Fischbach. She calls it the middle problem. So basically what happens is we have a huge burst of motivation at the outset of a goal. We all ca…”
Jul 7, 2026 positive
Valiante: Confidence and motivation matter more than intelligence in predicting performance
“Of all the variables that psychology measures, the two that I think are the most important are confidence and motivation, right? Confidence and motivation. People think it's intelligence, but it's actually not.”
Jul 7, 2026 neutral
Valiante: Core adult drive is rooted in formative childhood experiences and trauma
“When you ask somebody, why do you do what they do?
[3511] Dr. Gio Valiante: On a surface level, they're going to give all these answers.
[3513] Dr. Gio Valiante: It's like, oh, because I love it.
[3516] Dr. Gio Valiante: If you actually have deep conversations…”