How do you motivate yourself in self-development?

Question

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Good evening! Interested in how you motivate yourself in such an occupation as self-development. From just reading literature, to learning the language and some technologies / algorithms, etc. Can you tell me some films, literature that would motivate for intensive self-development. Some cite the book Martin Eden as an example.

Answer 1

I live the same amount of time and I am convinced that no motivation helps. If the soul lies to something, then self-development goes by itself in this direction. However, if you need to increase motivation to gain some knowledge, then this is no different from learning from under the stick.
ps Perhaps very subjective.

Answer 2

You will laugh, but my wife motivates me for self-development.
Every day, several times, she reminds me that I have to work, try to become even better because I need money for a two-room apartment. She believes I'm a goddamn "genius" who can make big money just by being lazy. Her "kicks" in the ass really help me.
I know it's funny, but believe me - an external real motivator for self-development is much better than any mechanisms of self-motivation.

Answer 3

I just came across the topic:
“How to motivate yourself to do something?
No way, stay in the ass!”
© A.Lebedev
Not a bad motivation, I think :)

Answer 4

The best motivation is the need for specific knowledge. If at the moment or in the near future knowledge is not needed, then why waste time and effort? After all, without fixing in practice, knowledge will not last long in the head, it will be a waste of time.
The fact that you have lost the desire to learn the language, I think it’s normal, decide why you are learning the language and whether your current level is enough for this purpose, if not enough (and it’s best to check in practice, because nothing encourages you to learn new things like a public file :) ), then the desire to learn will arise by itself and you won’t even have to think about any motivation

Answer 5

It’s not that I motivate myself, but when I solve a problem, I try to do everything in the highest class. Of course, it takes more time than if I were implementing a blunder, but I have to learn a lot along the way. Yes, and I choose tasks that are more difficult and more unique, so that it is not possible to see someone else's implementation, but only to think for myself. True, programming is my hobby, if I had a job, I probably wouldn’t be able to devote so much time to learning.

Answer 6

I don't motivate.
I just like to read books on new technologies and languages ​​like mongodb and nodejs, any artificial intelligence with pattern recognition, etc., in short, everything that would be good to learn, and then use it somewhere usefully ...

any movies

As if you don't know which movie is the most motivating, the one about a curly-haired bastard...

Answer 7

Motivation - it is mediated from your desire - it either exists or it does not. You can only create in the conditions under which it will appear.
The desire for development is a normal desire of any living being on earth. The vector is different for everyone, and depends on many things. If you do not insert English now? Well, don't do it. You do not have a specific need for it at the moment. (if you were, you wouldn't be doing sophistry here) You need to do what brings pleasure and feelings of happiness at this particular moment.

Answer 8

For myself, I came to the main conclusion for today: “If you want to do something, you just need to do it.” No matter how trite it sounds, it helps me a lot (I even quit smoking using this method).
If you still want to read / watch something, I can recommend A. Rand, “Source”, in particular. The book changes the mind.
And 2 movies: Dead Poets Society and Finding Forrester. Start with the first one, it is also very motivating.

Answer 9

Get more rest. And less motivation, more measured.

Answer 10

Self-development is a good term. But empty.
All this self-development is built around your [current] activities.
There is even such a theory of activity, a very smart uncle L.S. Vygotsky (see Wikipedia). She says that everything about a person should be studied through his activity. And I will add, not only study, but also improve, develop (including self-development, if you like).
So, everything, including your effectiveness and your development depends on what you are currently doing. I will say more narrowly - on what job you are currently working on, on what you are doing there, on whether you set tasks for yourself, whether the tasks are difficult for you, whether your boss "cuts" initiatives, depends on whether you become effective and generally successful.... A person, not an employee, as you might think.... Further - deeper, but time is short.

Answer 11

The motivation to achieve a goal lies in the goal itself and its subjective "value" for you. If the goal is average, then the incentive to achieve it is the same. Another question is that you won’t go far with the initial incentive and achieving the goal is painstaking work on yourself, but if there is no initial motivation, then you won’t move forward for sure. There is information on this topic here: https://vk.com/mentoristThe goal is more a path in the sense that it will not be that you achieve something and become happy completely and forever. As with revenge: you rejoiced for a while, and then disappointment sets in if you haven’t figured out what to want further. And if your goal is big and distant, then you are on the road for the most part and enjoy the progress. And even if you have achieved it, there will be more joy, since the goal is significant. Therefore, it is necessary to set a goal not as an end point, but as a vector of self-development.

Answer 12

you must understand what you need and why you need it is the best motivation. otherwise the films are all in one place)