In Hacking Life, Joseph Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods. They share tips on the most efficient ways to tie shoelaces and load the dishwasher they employ a tomato-shaped kitchen timer as a time-management tool.They see everything as a system composed of parts that can be decomposed and recomposed, with algorithmic rules that can be understood, optimized, and subverted. Life hackers track and analyze the food they eat, the hours they sleep, the money they spend, and how they're feeling on any given day. In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers sometimes risk going too far. These include success spirals, precommitment, and burnt ships. Just like a chef, a motivation hacker has a core set of tools that he uses every day. #4 A chef has a wide range of tools at his disposal.
Others I picked for excitement, like skateboarding and knife throwing, or because they’d be useful and fun, like learning 3,000 new Chinese words and reading twenty books. Some I picked for terror, like the marathon and skydiving. I would max out my motivation with every trick I knew, and set a time limit of three months to complete them all. I had no plan for how to build new habits, but I knew motivation. #2 I had planned to finish my startup’s iPhone app before moving to California. 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.
Sample Book Insights: #1 The Motivation Hacker shows you how to summon extreme amounts of motivation to accomplish anything you can think of. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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