Nir EyalSpeaker on Behavioral Science, NYT Bestselling Author, Former Stanford Lecturer

Key to achieving your goals #shorts

Name: Key to achieving your goals #shorts
Uploaded: 2024-08-02T12:00:02+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Nir Eyal
Description: A short motivational clip by Nir Eyal arguing that most valuable achievements require moving through discomfort and choosing consistent, daily effort…

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A short motivational clip by Nir Eyal arguing that most valuable achievements require moving through discomfort and choosing consistent, daily effort over sporadic intensity. He uses examples—long-term relationships and starting a business—to illustrate that the initial enjoyable phase gives way to a grind requiring difficult conversations and relentless consistency to reach long-term goals.

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Almost everything worth having in life is on the other side of discomfort, whether it's having a close relationship. Yeah, it's fun for a while. You've got that honeymoon phase. But long term relationships take hard work and a lot of tears and a lot of effort and a lot of conversations that sometimes are uncomfortable starting a business. Yeah, it's fun and exciting when you're designing the logo and you're telling your friends that you're an entrepreneur. But the grind is where you actually succeed. It's day after day after day of hard work. So it's really about consistency over intensity. Things worth having take time and they take consistent forward progress, relentless consistency forward progress. That's really how we accomplish our long term goals.