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Hack Your Motivation

Sylvain Abélard
March 12, 2013
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Hack Your Motivation

You've seen how to hack your health, then hack your brain.
But it's tiring to work on oneself relentlessly.
How do you keep the motivation?
Now hack the hacks!

Sylvain Abélard

March 12, 2013
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  1. @abelar_s - maitre-du-monde.fr
    hAcK yOuR MOtiVAtiOn
    « Hack Your Brain »
    This is the second part of
    « Hack Your Brain » series:
    managing your time, habits
    and motivation using your
    brain’s elasticity.
    @HumanTalks 12/03/2013
    Trivia: https://speakerdeck.com/abelar_s/hack-your-brain-trivia

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  2. Who am I?
    ‣ EPITA, Faveod, ParisRB
    ‣ Ruby since 2006, Rails since 2007
    ‣ Asking questions since 1984
    This talk follows...
    ‣ Health tips from geek to geek
    ‣ Hack Your Brain - for introduction
    ‣ H.Y.B. Trivia - for my science heroes

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  3. Hack Your Brain Nikola Tesla
    Previously on HYB...
    ‣ Intelligence
    ‣ just know you can
    ‣ Expertise
    ‣ deliberate practice
    ‣ Memory
    ‣ create links and emotions
    ‣ Toolbox
    ‣ make it simpler, question it
    ... now hack the hacks!

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  4. Starting blocks Cicero
    Why & How?
    would you want more
    motivation?
    ‣ Unsatisfaction
    ‣ why change if you’re happy?
    ‣ Laziness
    ‣ makes you try to optimize

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  5. Willpower Jean-François Champollion
    Willpower is a muscle
    ‣ strengthen it
    ‣ find your limit
    ‣ then push it forward!
    ‣ let it rest
    ‣ recover

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  6. Rewards Blaise Pascal
    Bribe yourself!
    ‣ reward work
    ‣ with actionable results
    ‣ smart rewards
    ‣ don’t defeat the purpose
    ‣ beware of rebound effect

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  7. Triggers
    Train yourself
    ‣ strengths & weaknesses
    ‣ seeing X remind you that...
    ‣ might be a tempting trap
    ‣ or a hint of shame
    ‣ build your triggers
    ‣ hey, it’s 10AM! Have I stretched?
    ‣ out of work! Do I need to buy...?
    ‣ on my way, is my TODO OK?
    Benoît Mandelbrot

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  8. Habits Ada Byron-Lovelace
    Bypass willpower
    ‣ routine
    ‣ a trigger can grow into a habit
    ‣ then uses much less willpower
    ‣ in just 66 days?
    ‣ it’s worth trying right?

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  9. Social René Descartes
    Shame, Pride & Herd
    ‣ be the worst
    ‣ become the average
    ‣ ... of your 5 closest people
    ‣ same with money
    (people feel content if they’re in
    the top 20% of people they know)
    ‣ find role models
    ‣ or just people you admire

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  10. Health Ambroise Paré
    Bad health
    =
    Bad decisions
    ‣ good sleep
    ‣ healthy food
    ‣ manage stress
    ‣ do some exercise

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  11. Hacks
    ‣ Temptations
    ‣ Oscar Wilde’s quote
    ‣ Obvious failures
    ‣ Tracking
    ‣ Avoid obviously bad stuff
    ‣ Forces you to think
    ‣ Seinfeld method
    ‣ Reinforcement
    ‣ Engagement
    ‣ Social
    ‣ pride over shame
    Nº1 Sadi Carnot *
    * this is Nicolas Léonard SADI CARNOT, there’s a cheat sheet at the end

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  12. Play! Roger Caillois
    Thanks @rwhy for @aral’s talk!
    Try
    Risk
    Fail

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  13. Wrapping up
    ‣ Cognitive
    ‣ Get in good shape
    ‣ Learn patterns
    => deliberate practice
    ‣ Sayings
    ‣ Practice makes perfect
    ‣ Fake it till you make it
    => don’t panic, you can too
    ‣ Self perception
    ‣ Dunning-Kruger Effect
    ‣ Impostor syndrome
    => track SMART goals, play!
    Louis Pasteur
    Dark Side version

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  14. Thanks!
    maitre-du-monde.fr
    @abelar_s:
    - twitter
    - slideshare
    -speakerdeck
    QueStiOnS?

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  15. Credits
    Jason Shen: Willpower talk
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aapb6lZG-zE
    Aral Balkan: A Happy Grain Of Sand keynote
    http://vimeo.com/43524962
    Gotlib: La Rubrique à Brac : Isaac Newtons
    GMathieu: Normalien / Centralien / Alien
    ...
    Eratosthenes

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  16. th
    e CaRnOt Ch
    eat Sh
    eet
    Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, physique, thermodynamique
    Lazare Hippolyte, maths, ingénieur, ministre
    Marie-François Sadi Carnot, président de la République
    Marie-Adolphe, chimiste, géologue, conseil général de Charente
    Lazare Nicolas Marguerite dit le Grand Carnot maths, physique, général
    Joseph François Claude, jurisconsulte
    Claude-Marie dit Carnot-Feulins, capitaine, député, ministre de l’intérieur

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