do you sometimes be like oh man i don't
have any motivation
i really need to motivate myself to do
blah blah task
i used to think i need motivation to do
something
as well but i was wrong motivation is
overhyped
and i'm going to explain you why it is
hi guys it's me jody today i'm going to
be explaining you why motivation is over
hyped and what you can do instead so you
might think
who the hell are you to give me an
advice about motivation
so firstly let me introduce my
achievements it's kind of like
weird to say because it really sounds
like i'm bragging about them
but not really because i'm trying to
make you believe me because these tips
really changed my life
and i'm sure that will help your life as
well so firstly
from middle school in my sixth seventh
in
eighth grade i was a honor student
and in turkey if you enter a scholarship
exam
if you get a certain ranking in that
exam you get scholarship
and i got 75 scholarship from
my private school so i was a third of
the honors student
i would say after that i got into one of
the best high schools in turkey which is
i think my high school sucks but anyways
let's talk about that in another video
and then i got into med school i'm
currently taking a break from med school
but you know
it's kind of cool to say that you're a
med student
and also i'm a polyglot i know four
languages japanese turkish english in
german
and all of them i'm pretty fluent and
yes knowing four languages
is also being polyglot just search it on
cambridge dictionary
and also i've lost 11 kilos
around like 25 pounds i guess and i'm
also
a kind of a youtuber this mindset really
changed my life
and i'm sure that will change yours as
well when i was in high school
after getting into one of the best high
schools in turkey i was so relaxed and
i was like screw everything i did my
best
now time to chill and i chilled for a
couple years and my grades were like
you know falling and
i really had tough times with motivation
and concentration in high
school but i really really changed that
in a later years of the high school
and i met this book motivation
myth from jeff hayden and it really
changed my mindset towards motivation
and my goals and my discipline
my willpower basically everything so
let's get started so let's start with
the definition of motivation
most of the people defines motivation as
an
active energy that you need in order to
start
to do something for example in order to
read a book
you need a motivation to do it right so
when you follow that definition
if you don't have motivation you can't
do the thing
you need a activating energy to do that
kind of stuff right
but it's not right you don't need
motivation to do something
all you need is dedication and also
motivation is
not in spark have you ever experienced
this after hearing a motivational speech
or watching a motivational sort of a
movie
you're just super inspired you're super
motivated
and you rock the thing that you have to
do
but after like maybe a day maybe a
couple days later
you start to lose your motivation that
is because
it is a short-term motivation it's like
a kind of a drug
you get quickly motivated but you lose
it pretty
fast also other people can only motivate
us
for a short period of time more you
use that short period of time drug or
dopamine
you get more addicted to it and you need
more and more and more
but in order to have a healthy
relationship with motivation
the thing that you need is long-term
motivation
and what is that long-term motivation
comes
after you start the thing you start to
think you continue to think
you accomplish your goal and after you
accomplish your goal
your motivation comes in that's the
long-term motivation
motivation isn't a result of hearing a
speech or watching a movie or something
motivation is something that you work
for
you feel motivated because you took
action you don't need motivation
to do action motivation isn't a
precondition
you don't need it in order to start you
start
you do the thing and then it will come
once you start
it's easy to keep going but then
why starting is that hard you decided to
work out first time you go to the gym it
is like really refreshing
but after a couple times you start to
feel
unmotivated about of it even though you
love working out and you
love that accomplishment feeling you
feel sluggish and you make excuses not
to go to the gym
it can be everything that you enjoy we
even really procrastinate from the
things that
we love you've probably put of a task
and then you suddenly start working on
it and after working on it for
a period of time you realize that it
wasn't actually that daunting as you
told
i don't know why i kept this putting off
and you really don't understand that
because you love the feeling of the
satisfaction
but you don't know why you are
procrastinating from the thing
that is because we have a mindset of i
have to i have to go to the gym
i have to read i have to do this and i
have to do this
just changing your mindset from i have
to to i want to really changes the game
you might think
just changing mindset really gonna
change my life
or something and it is gonna really
change
trust me it really changes
starting is hard because motivation
doesn't really help with it at all
so how to start when you are zero
percent
motivated as i said i change my mindset
from i have to to i want to
and also there is another thing that you
can do and that
is the key the key is to enjoy the
process
don't rush try to improve yourself our
goal is not to be perfect
our goal is to improve ourselves and
reach to our goals right
so try to improve yourself every day
just one percent when i set as some sort
of a goal
i really tend to rush and i really want
to achieve that goal really quickly
but all i had back in the day in my mind
was to achieve the goal but the
important thing is the enjoying the
process because once you enjoy the
process
you don't need motivation to do that
thing the only thing that feeds your
motivation is
success when you become successful from
your plans from your habits
it motivates you to go further because
you know that your habits
and the things that you've done made you
successful
so it really motivates you and that's
the long-term motivation
okay so now why you are not achieving
your goals
a lack of motivation or self-discipline
or willpower
actually means that you have a solution
when you accept your imperfections i
have a bunch of weaknesses that i know
and i'm working on
so detect your weaknesses know them and
try to improve them
hide from your weaknesses you will be
always weak
know your weaknesses improve them you
will get stronger and stronger and
stronger
when you see yourself getting stronger
and stronger and stronger
it will motivate you to continue and do
the thing
willpower is definitely not the key i
get a lot of comments
and questions and dms about my willpower
and my determination
i don't think that i have a special
discipline or special
willpower because if i had that i would
achieve
every single goal that i've set for
myself i failed about a lot of things
and i succeed about very few things
i procrastinate a lot what we can do in
order to change that
rather than relying on willpower or
discipline or things
try to build routines that works for you
for example i have a morning routine
nighttime routine shower time routine
an exercise routine study routine
book reading routine or whatever i
developed
routines so that the task doesn't
require
willpower for me and i experimented and
tried a lot of routines and finally
found
routines that works for me personally
because when you make a routine
you don't need to decide if you're gonna
do it or not
you just make it a routine so you're
gonna do it without even thinking about
of it if you give yourself
a lot of choices that you can pick from
you will always choose the easiest for
yourself
which is wasting your time on social
media maybe
i don't know maybe who knows we humans
are so smart that we can always make
excuses for ourselves
to not to do that action when you create
a routine
embrace that routine and see the results
from that
you stop negotiating with yourself
because you know that
those routines will make things easier
for you
and those things will make you closer
for your dreams and for your goals
and you stop making choices that don't
support your goal your biggest limit is
you
we all have limits that's for sure some
of them are mental some of them
are physical some of them are the things
that we cannot change
but i'm not talking about those most of
the limits that we have
are actually the things that we said for
ourselves
for example you say today is not the day
i'm not smart enough i'm not like a blah
blah person
i'm not enough i can do this i'm just
not able to do this and etcetera list
goes on
although there are some limitations you
probably think the lifestyle you
currently have
is the most convenient one you have a
data from the past
and you know what's gonna happen and you
know how you react when things
happen right it is kind of like driving
through the old road
you know that the new road is gonna take
less time
but you still ride the old road why
because you know the old road and if
something possible happens
so you know what to do and what you can
do but
trying a new road is always hard because
you don't know what will happen
and you don't know what can possibly
happen
so even though old road takes more time
than the new road you still
choose the old road and also new road
new lifestyle does not necessarily
guarantees you
a more happy life so rather than trying
new things
and risking yourself it is easy to stay
where you are
and complain about it and make excuses
why you can't do that thing
i don't wanna do this anymore
if we continue to make excuses for
ourselves
we would never be able to change so the
important thing
is a having a courage to change and
taking a responsibility of it
and not relying on motivation in my
opinion
and in this order's opinion as i said at
the beginning of the video i don't rely
on motivation
but sometimes i feel super unmotivated
and i
literally don't have any energy to do
something
in those days i use the short-term
motivation
so the thing that i do is i watch videos
or i read books from
people that i admire and that i look up
to but i don't do that too much because
if i would like watch
10 videos or like i would read for like
five hours or something
that's just a pure procrastination
that's not a me getting a little dose of
motivation
so don't fool yourself we're super good
at procrastination
i'm super good at that too i make really
logical
reasons not to study or not to edit not
film but at the end of the day we're
gonna be the one who's gonna suffer from
that so
let's be honest to ourselves at least so
when it comes to building a routine it's
a whole different story
which needs a whole dedicated video
about of it i can do a video out of it
if you guys want
but i think this was enough for the day
i hope you guys like this video
i hope this video added a new
perspective a new value
or something that volleyball in your
life
i hope so yeah don't rely on motivation
i think this mindset will change your
life i hope you like this video
bye for now bye bye so let's start with
the definition
okay i talk too much other people
can that it yeah
most of the people kind of like
huh motivation isn't
active cut that part cut that part cut
that part
but i think this was ah
the lifestyle lifestyle lifestyle
you know the new road will meet
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