• Tentative definition of “willingness (e.g. to do something)” by [Tomoya Tachikawa

  • Emotions that you feel when you are acting in a direction that you find interesting” # Relationship between motivation and fun

  • In other words, instead of thinking, “I’m not motivated, so how can I motivate myself?” we should think, “It’s not interesting, so how can I make it interesting?

  • When you think, “I’m not motivated, so how can I motivate myself?”

    • Motivation is my (human) attribute
    • Trying to change human attributes.
    • What we do is fixed.
  • When you think, “It’s not interesting, so how can I make it interesting?”

    • Interest is an attribute of “doing
    • I’m not trying to change myself.
    • Trying to change the attributes of “doing.”
  • It is difficult to operate on oneself.

  • It’s easier to do “change a task into something interesting” than “motivate yourself.”

  • It is difficult to change one’s emotional “motivation”.

    • It’s the same root that makes it difficult to deal critically with one’s own ideas.
    • It’s related to the fact that it’s easier to think critically about your thoughts when you put them on paper rather than just in your head.

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