“Moderation in all things,” they say. That may keep a society together, but it’s not the protagonist’s job. The Motivation Hacker shows you how to summon extreme amounts of motivation to accomplish anything you can think of. From precommitment to rejection therapy, this is your field guide to getting yourself to want to do everything you always wanted to want to do.
I wrote this book in three months while simultaneously attempting seventeen other missions, including running a startup, launching a hit iPhone app, learning to write 3,000 new Chinese words, training to attempt a four-hour marathon from scratch, learning to skateboard, helping build a successful cognitive testing website, being best man at two weddings, increasing my bench press by sixty pounds, reading twenty books, going skydiving, helping to start the Human Hacker House, learning to throw knives, dropping my 5K time by five minutes, and learning to lucid dream.
I planned to do all this while sleeping eight hours a night, sending 1,000 emails, hanging out with a hundred people, going on ten dates, buying groceries, cooking, cleaning, and trying to raise my average happiness from 6.3 to 7.3 out of 10.
How? By hacking my motivation.
Love it! I’ve been in the self help world for a while. Still, there are a lot of things to be learnt from this book.I liked Nick’s honesty and vulnerability in describing both his shortcomings (he’s no “I can do everything” guru) and his successes. I personally know about myself that I respond to the same kind of motivations that motivate him – daily reporting, pretty graphs, putting money on the line.But the biggest thing for me was to learn about Success Spirals. It’s…
Entertaining, Inspiring, and Cheap – The Best Combination The book reads more like a coming off age, where the hero shakes off old habits and steps into his new role, than like a guide. If you’re expecting concrete technique descriptions and plans, you’ll be disappointed. But this book inspires, is based off of solid science, and is entertaining. Definitely worth the price.Personally, this book inspired me to get a little crazy. I always thought super achievement required giving up balance – that you can’t be number #1 and still have a…