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Motivation Cards

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Category: Conversation Games

Good work involves feeling engaged and motivated by what we’re doing – and battling inertia and weariness with courage and imagination.

Fortunately, motivation is not a gift from the gods; it is a quality we can nurture in ourselves and encourage in others.

Motivation is a tool for increasing our effectiveness; 52 exercises designed to train our brains to find their bearings and generate their very best efforts. Our minds are not machines, and are prone to distractions, indecision and cognitive biases – but these can also be worked around and overcome. Each exercise prompts us to engage in activities and thought experiments that help us to surmount mental blocks and formulate strategies for solving problems and achieving our goals. At once a collection of psychological solutions and calls to action, this is an invaluable resource for unlocking our true potential.

Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Ruby ★★★★★

Kept these on my desk during a rough stretch at work, and pulling one over lunch genuinely helped me push through the afternoon slump. The prompts on motivation being a skill you build rather than something you wait for landed harder than I expected.

Grace J. ★★★★★

The prompts about battling inertia actually got me out of a weeks-long slump on a personal project. I like that they treat motivation as something you build rather than wait for.

Jason ★★★★★

I keep these on my desk and pull one when I'm stuck mid-afternoon, and the prompt about treating motivation as a skill rather than luck actually got me back into a stalled project. Each card is short enough to read in a minute, no fluff.