Nick Winter Quotes & Sayings

Kahneman's evidence shows that we suck at remembering and predicting our own well-being. We as a culture still ignore this empirical evidence, recommending to live our lives so as to avoid deathbed regrets. Deathbed regrets are like Hollywood films: they stir passions for a couple hours, but are poorly connected to reality. They are not good criteria for a well-lived life. — Nick Winter

By increasing Expectancy or Value, or decreasing Impulsiveness or Delay, you hack motivation. For — Nick Winter

The biggest hack a motivation hacker can perform is to build her confidence to the size of a volcano. An oversized eruption of Expectancy can incinerate all obstacles in the path to any goal when you combine it with good planning. Value — Nick Winter

The motivation hacker learns to steer his life towards higher Value and to have fun demolishing boring necessities in his way. Impulsiveness — Nick Winter