The Psychology of Motivation: the Pleasure Principle to Overcome Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness

Perhaps Tomato saw that I had not updated it and deliberately pushed this sacred book to me. Well worth a look. The author conducts an in-depth analysis of human motivations and behaviors through real cases. I think the more important thing is not to see him teach you how to do it, but to understand the theory he summarized. Just like playing a game, after you understand the mechanism, you can think of various ways to play, instead of just following the guide and rigidly copying the gameplay. With strong will and rational cognition, you can influence your own wishes through various means, and then decide your own behavior. By doing this and allowing your own will to indirectly control your actions, you can achieve true self-discipline—and true freedom. Of course, his theory is not limited to this. Give an example. The title of the book itself is actually the author's application of his theory. He revealed that by reading this book, you can "overcome addiction, procrastination, and laziness." When a person who is suffering from anxiety reads this book, he will compare performing his unfinished difficult tasks with reading this book, and finally finds that reading this book can relieve his anxiety more easily. Uh-huh, here comes the reader.

"Happy unconsciousness" is a good concept. The book contains some practical experiences and more of the underlying logic. Staying away from pain and obtaining happiness are the underlying motivations for human actions. If you want to quit gaming, set up obstacles at the beginning of the game (uninstall the game in advance, lock the phone), or add painful connections to the game (delete save files, log out of the account). If you poop without your phone, you may read the shampoo instructions while going to the toilet. Under certain conditions, even boring things can provide greater pleasure. In short, there are too many factors other than willpower that can control human beings, so it is best to build a firewall for yourself to prevent "happy unconsciousness" from playing havoc with your life.

It is highly recommended. It has concepts and explanations. If it is more urgent, just focus on the key points. If you want to analyze it in depth, you can read it all. Use it as a tool to help you work and study better.

Yes, the unconscious pleasure principle is what drives everything

Very good. This book explains many of our unconscious behaviors and gives solutions so that we can better control ourselves.

This book is not bad. It is very clear and concise. It can help us change procrastination or achieve learning goals. From the first few cases to the solution of the cases at the end, it can be said to be a perfect closed loop. It is also short and concise. Learn new knowledge from the book. People always seek pleasure and avoid pain, and happiness is unconscious. That is, we always do things that make us feel happy, and our bodies automatically choose. When we choose to give up one thing we are doing, and do another thing, we compare our anxiety with the pleasure we get from the thing we gave up, and finally get the result of doing that thing. If we want to accomplish one thing, we can Make it simple, break it down into several steps, or share with friends what you are doing now. If you don't do it, we will have dissonance. To avoid it, we will persist, or establish a target audience to make us more motivated. At the same time, we must not start before starting an important thing. Recreational activities, otherwise important things will definitely not be done. If you have a deep understanding, look for the fun in this thing. If not, see if there is anything that can increase the fun of this thing. Finally, there is the principle of motivation, the preparation for starting this thing, the thing process itself, and the result of the thing. You can find a breakthrough method from these three contents.

Regarding the idea that happiness is unintentional, it really opened up my new understanding. If the methods in the book can be applied to daily life, it will definitely become a great help for us to complete our tasks and goals. Thank you author.

Happy unconsciousness is an interesting concept. I don't know if it's a translation problem, but quite a few passages are very difficult to understand. I need to read them two or three times to understand what the author wants to express. However, these principles are quite interesting, and it doesn't matter if I read them twice more.

I watched the first half very carefully, but the theoretical part in the middle was very awkward. I don't know if it's a translation problem, but I don't know what it's talking about in a long paragraph, but when I analyze it in the following chapters combined with the previous cases, it starts to become easier to understand. Overall it's somewhat helpful. At least I learned how to analyze what I am doing and what I plan to do. As well as mastering your own motivations and creating more motivation for yourself to do it.

Just like Jim mentioned in the book, his experience of procrastination made me see my own shadow. The author Roman Gelperin uses a simple and easy-to-understand method to let us understand the deep reasons behind our behaviors. I think this is very helpful for educating my children, helping them understand their behavioral motivations and develop good habits and self-discipline. In short, this is a very practical book and I recommend it to you!

It solves the most fundamental problem of why people procrastinate. The main reason why people procrastinate is that they are unconscious about happiness. In order to pursue happiness, they can choose to give up some things, such as the homework they are completing, and do things that can get them faster. The solution he gives us is to find fulfillment and joyful meaning in our activities so that we can get rid of procrastination

This is a very good book. It first gives examples of other people's cases, then starts from the bottom, analyzes people's east-west psychology, explains the impact of happiness and displeasure on people's behavioral motivations, and finally returns to case analysis and makes suggestions.

It's a great book. I forced myself to finish it during the reading period and put a lot of pressure on myself. I ended up hastily reading it, but it was better than usual. I suffer from severe procrastination caused by emotions in the book. I can't do anything when I'm anxious. There's a lot of room for improvement.

It is very professional and I learned a lot after reading it. I have been troubled by procrastination recently. After reading it, I feel that I usually suppress my feelings too much. After reading it, the integration of knowledge and action will definitely make my life greatly improved. I also hope that people who have the same problem as me can find this book and improve their lives as soon as possible.

Trying to quit smoking

Really useful books don't need all that nonsense. This book is tailor-made for people who want to change but are unsuccessful.

This book is really helpful to individuals. It can let you know why you are addicted to something and take measures. The examples given in it are similar to actual ones, such as quitting smoking, not wanting to go to the gym, being addicted to games, etc. It puts forward many eye-catching ideas.

The methods mentioned in the book are highly feasible

I finished reading it while doing my homework [laughing evilly]

It is somewhat useful, at least here I know the principle of happy unconsciousness and how to use this principle to find happiness and eliminate unpleasantness. It can also be regarded as a little inspiration, how to use your own instinct to collaborate to complete some things that are originally unmotivated or unpleasant.

A very good book that helped me understand the reasons behind some of my actions. Also let me know why I like to procrastinate.

It's very interesting. It means knowing what increases pleasure, reduces displeasure, and makes happiness unconscious. However, this kind of thing cannot be achieved through self-reflection. It must be achieved through studying psychology, and then realizing the charm of psychology.

It's really useful, this book gave me some inspiration

Good, good, good, good There is a good thing in it. If you wake up in the morning, you will feel a little happy. If you use your mobile phone, it will make us happy, that is, the amount of dopamine produced will increase. If we want to be happy, we must have more dopamine. Therefore, if we play with mobile phones in the morning, the whole day will be basically wasted, which will reduce the time we spend studying and produce less learning, leading us to be more inclined to more entertaining things.

Life always has many surprises and obstacles. Even if we can't fly to pursue them, we still have to limp forward.

Some of the content in this book can be applied to work. Actions must be motivated. There must also be happiness and unhappiness. How to turn unpleasant things into happy ones. To quit addiction, start from the beginning. You can successfully quit addiction by stopping the original problem You can use fictitious sources of happiness to work (TV, mobile phones) and then use unpleasantness to create sources of happiness at work Activity goal Event process Activity results If the activity results do not meet the activity goals. The event may end The course of the activity is also affected by the source of happiness and the environment. Directly affect the results of activities

It is more difficult than boring, but you will gain something if you calm down and read it.

Added to the book list, worth reading again and again. As the book says, you have far less control over your body than you think. I need such a manual of human motivation.

Very practical, not long, and quite interesting. I recommend everyone to read it.

The writing is smooth, persuasive, and clear.