How To Trick Your Brain Into Liking Hard Things
Start putting the phone down and picking wisdom up.
Have you ever wondered why it’s so easy for other people to be productive?Have you ever felt motivated to do certain things, only to have that drive dry out within a few days? Have you ever felt discouraged or frustrated when the people around you discuss their goals and how they’ve read 75 books and wrote 9 on top of maintaining a healthy body? Meanwhile, you’re still struggling with the third chapter of the book you’ve been trying to read for the last 2 months?
If you’ve answered yes to all of those, you’re in the right place. In an article written by Lisa Feldman Barrett for The New York Times, she says that you tend to feel tired and frustrated when you increase activity in your brain.
For instance, consider the last time you took a math test or pushed your physical limits. How did you feel? Hard work often makes you feel bad in the moment; you often think to yourself, “I’m never doing this again. It’s way too hard.”
Instead of challenging your brain, you start doing the things that make you feel comfortable or things that are easy. Then you wonder why you’re incapable of focusing on your work daily. You’ve trained your brain to like comfort, but discomfort is when growth happens.
