Instant Gratification and the Death of Mastery: How to Refocus Your Life

Instant Gratification and the Death of Mastery: How to Refocus Your Life

Make time your secret weapon. Our success and happiness are often eroded by the 7 habits of highly impatient people. We are losing the ability to focus and glorify instant success. Thus we lose the ability to stick with anything and create meaningful work. This episode goes through the psychology and philosophy of taking a slower and deeper approach to life: Understand the causes behind our poor attention spans Create resilience in your work Grow lasting momentum instead of bursts of speed From ancient stoic philosophers to the latest neuroscience. The signs are all put together in the episode that will help you focus your life and make time work towards your success. Upgrade to Premium: 🏖️ Ad-free listening 🤘 Support the show 🔓 Exclusive AMAs and bonus content 💬 Community Discord GrowthMindset.Supercast.com Sponsors: 💼 LinkedIn Jobs - The largest professional network in the world Advertise your job for free - LinkedIn.com/growth Get in Touch 👋 Free Call - Schedule Link - https://cal.com/samwebster/mindset 📧 Email - GrowthMindsetPodcast (@) gmail,com Growth Mindset Psychology: Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. 📺 Watch - YouTube (Growth Mindset) 🛜 Website - Growth Mindset Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: Instant Gratification and the Death of Mastery: How to Refocus Your Life Chapters: 00:00 Slowing down as a key to success 01:45 The allure and pitfalls of instant gratification 03:56 Building momentum 06:40 Optionality diminishes focus and inertia 10:35 Michael Jordan vs. high school star 12:03 Modern dating and the problem with optionality 12:54 ADVERT 13:03 Social media fuels our addiction to speed 15:38 Marcus Aurelius on the power of slowing down 16:53 Evaluating daily choices that speed you up or slow you down 17:38 Slowing down for happiness and growth 20:04 Realizations of ADHD 20:45 Going "all in" builds momentum 21:26 Send off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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