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Back to EpisodesMotivation Wears Off. Here's What I Do Each Morning. | Daily Essay
Description
My first rule is focus on what you control. Roughly 80% of my anxiety comes from losing sight of it. Hermann Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve shows why a rule you know still slips and why I reread mine each morning and most nights.
Featuring: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Zig Ziglar
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Chapters:
(00:00) Motivation doesn't last
(00:06) My first rule and my anxiety
(00:20) Ebbinghaus and the forgetting curve
(00:44) Rereading my rules each morning
(00:56) A rule lasts about as long as a shower
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