How Perception Affects Your Motivation

perfectly explained, I believe with the full clip he breaks down what he really means and how his scam example translates to other productive issues

Investing requires an ongoing flow of driving the market where periods of growth and times where you need to add in more due to the market being down. It’s a really uneasy feeling because your down so much money, your scared to invest more but you believe in that company! Well you have two options, it’s the right company and you gotta dig in deep when things are down or you stop watering the grass and let it go down to zero!

It kinda reminds me of the sad times at the school 🏫 where I perceived that some teachers had some favorite students whom they gave benefits like good marks. Although I was a smart teenager who was also a favorite student of some teachers myself, it was demotivating to me to see that such kinds of teachers do exist & that's why I preferred to do less for their courses, to be honest with you. 😄

Is one those Flick of a Light Switch moment

Hence the term "con-artist"… an abbreviation of someone who instills 'confidence' within his mark/victim that the artist or scheme is trustworthy.

The con-artist never forces the victim to do anything; the favorable perception is what motivates the mark to participate through his own volition.

So, my brain looks at a beneficial situation and perceives as "it's as a trap," subconsciously. Then, consciously persuades me to avoid it?

Having no motivation to do something because you perceive it as being fruitless? Mostly based on internal insecurity?

Future benefits can't be perceived but only imagined. Therefore, motivation is based on perception and imagination/prediction.

Yeah, this is my struggle, I've tried many things to the point it felt painful and didn't see results –

On some congnative level I know there's much more to try

Emotionally I've fallen into the thought process "if nothing ever happens, why waste your effort there when you could be doing something fun"

One way that I try to trick my ADHD brain at work is to change my perception of “this is boring/uninteresting/mundane work” over to “get the mundane stuff done and out of the way so that I can move onto problem-solving work and helping people”.

Very good example of outlining the importance of goals, and actually knowing what you want to do and how you want to do it.

Real

Its problem solving 101.

If you were led to believe you couldnt do it or anyone – your teacher , your mind , your parents, your friends and your perception is shifted or altered or build then and there you will associate it with avoidance or encouragement to engage in the activity.

The activity could be good or bad.
Morally correct or false.

Also "learned helplessness, "
if you FAIL several times and you no longer trust ANYBODY or even yourself.

my brain really is scamming me…"come one more episode and then there is still enough time to do things"
me 10 episodes later:"ah sht"