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Making progress is satisfying, and visual measures… provide clear evidence of your progress… they reinforce your behavior and add a little bit of immediate satisfaction…
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Research has shown that people who track their progress on goals… are all more likely to improve than those who don’t.
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The most effective form of motivation is progress. When we get a signal that we are moving forward, we become more motivated to continue down that path.
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First you crawl, then you walk, and then… you dance. This is when it really gets fun.
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It’s when we progress from novice to amateur that we become overconfident.
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We take pride in making rapid progress, which promotes a false sense of mastery. That jump-starts an overconfidence cycle, preventing us from doubting what we know and being curious about what we don’t.
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Plenty of evidence suggests that confidence is just as often the result of progress as the cause of it.
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Being wrong won’t always be joyful. The path to embracing mistakes is full of painful moments, and we handle those moments better when we remember they’re essential for progress.
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In a productive conversation, people treat their feelings as a rough draft. Like art, emotions are works in progress. It rarely serves us well to frame our first sketch.
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It takes confident humility to admit that we’re a work in progress. It shows that we care more about improving ourselves than proving ourselves.
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