Name: 3 Ways to Trick Your Brain Into Doing Hard Work
Uploaded: 2021-10-09T11:50:47.000Z
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- One of my favorite parts of my morning routine

Every single morning, I sit down in this office chair,

I grab a book, and I read, accompanied by

a few essential tools: a cup of freshly-brewed coffee,

so I can take notes on what I read later,

this little green notebook that sits near my feet.

Whenever something pops into my head and pulls my attention

away from what I'm reading, I simply jot down

without being worried about forgetting it.

But there's something odd about my distraction journal.

In between the pages of little notes about distractions,

or checking with my team about something,

about my most creative and most significant work.

In fact, my most recent entry in this distraction journal

has nearly six pages about a video that I'm working on,

this is meant for jotting down quick little notes

and then getting back to what I was doing,

Meanwhile, half the time I sit down at a computer

with the intent to do some quote-unquote serious work,

I find myself staring at a blinking cursor.

I'm kinda like, if you've seen the movie "Limitless",

I'm kinda like Bradley Cooper's character, Eddie Morra.

You know, I put in the time, I stay in the room,

Now, unlike Eddie, my solution to this problem

though while we're talking about "Limitless",

I do have to just take a second to admire

the way the filmmakers used the change in color grading

to illustrate the change in his mental state

That from a filmmaking perspective is just (smacks lips).

My solution here is not a drug, it's an idea.

Creative work, or difficult, challenging work

Now if you've never heard this term before,

A non-Newtonian fluid acts just like a normal fluid

most of the time, but when it's struck really quickly,

its structure, its molecules become very rigid

and the entire substance acts like a solid.

So imagine if you had an entire bucket of this stuff

and you wanted to submerge your hand into it.

if you did it slowly, if you eased your hand in,

if you just slam your hand into it very quickly,

and it's gonna be basically like punching a wall,

And this is exactly how I think of creative work as well.

When you make these giant, sweeping statements

is so big, so intimidating, that you just can't get into it,

but ease into it, and you sometimes find yourself

immersed in what psychologists call the flow state:

a place where you're completely focused on your work.

In this state, the act of creation is all-encompassing,

it's fun, and you sometimes find yourself

losing track of time until you come out of it.

Now, getting into the flow state is not always easy,

but it does seem like you can do it more consistently

It's almost like you're tricking your brain into doing it.

I wanna share three ideas that you can use

to trick your brain into getting into the flow state,

and the first one is very simple: start incredibly small.

Don't make these grand, sweeping gestures

that just make your work very intimidating,

and the example I wanna give here is actually about the book

called "10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades",

My first attempt was a complete and utter failure,

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