Become Addicted To Doing Hard Things

Brain is bioligically wired to reists effort.

Brain constantly calculating whether a task’s reward is worth the energy required.

The Secret to tackling hard task isn’t using willpower, but intellegently designing the task so our brain actually wants to cooperate.

How to Design Tasks

1. Design the Size of the Task

   You should break diffucult goals down into “absurdly small” steps so the feel completely achievable and your brain isn’t intimidated.

   Just as games are broker into small, achievable levels.

2. Design How the Task Feels (Framing)

   Shift mindest from viewing a task as an obligation to viewing it as a choice. When you tell yourself “I have to do this,” your brain treats it as imposed work and generate resistance.

   However, framiing it as “I choose to do this” turns it into your own personal decision, which helps you engage more depply, persist longer, and enjoy the process.

3. Design the Commitment

   To stick with hard things over time without quitting, you should create a “pact” or a “tiny experiment” with yourself.

   A pact is a short-term, highly achievable commitment, such as choosing to study coding for 30 minutes a day for just two weeks. By making the commitment short rather tahn lifelong, you are more likely to finish it, which proves to your brain that you are a person who follows through on their commitments.

Hard task don’t become easy because you force to do them; they become easy when you design the right conditions for your brain to cooperate.

Source: HOW TO BECOME ADDICTED TO DOING HARD THINGS (with neuroscience)