Summary of Nick Winter's The Motivation Hacker

Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Motivation Hacker shows you how to summon extreme amounts of motivation to accomplish anything you can think of. 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. #2 I had planned to finish my startup’s iPhone app before moving to California. I had no plan for how to build new habits, but I knew motivation. I would max out my motivation with every trick I knew, and set a time limit of three months to complete them all. #3 I came up with eighteen goals. Some I picked for terror, like the marathon and skydiving. 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. #4 A chef has a wide range of tools at his disposal. Just like a chef, a motivation hacker has a core set of tools that he uses every day. These include success spirals, precommitment, and burnt ships.