blog/_posts/2024-07-18-i-dont-want-to-do-it.md

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I don't want to do it	/:title/	Midnight thoughts on pushing myself	motivational

Most of the breakthroughs I’ve seen in my life were from seemingly unpleasant things I didn’t want to do, and yet I made myself do them. At times the reward comes right after, other times they don’t. But they accumulate and build up a tolerance for doing things I don’t want to do, and now I get motivated not because I initially wanted to do things, but because there’s fulfillment in the simple achievement of getting unpleasant things done. It’s like a game where I constantly beat the version of myself that don’t want to do things.