I posted this because while he speaks a lot of truth, I think he has the wrong idea about living in the moment.
My understanding of living in the moment is not to avoid work or purely seek pleasure, but to learn to take pleasure in everything you do. Focus not on finishing an odious task quickly to get a reward, but focus on the pleasurable aspects of the task itself and let the thought of reward wait.
Living in the moment is feeling pleasure in the strength of your muscles and fluidity of movement while you exercise. The goal is fitness or weight loss, and exercise is hard work, tempting you to rush through it or to dream of the reward while you exercise.
Living in the moment is feeling the warm sun, hearing the birds chirping, and smelling the earthy soil while you dig postholes. Whatever the reward might be when you finish, if you focus on the pleasurable things about the work itself then it ceases to be an odious chore.
Always putting a reward at the end of a chore is useful but at some point it will fail you. Maybe your self control breaks down, maybe you have cut out the things you were rewarding yourself with. Motivating by reward teaches you that the task is unpleasant and to not do the task unless there's a reward.
I posted this because while he speaks a lot of truth, I think he has the wrong idea about living in the moment.
My understanding of living in the moment is not to avoid work or purely seek pleasure, but to learn to take pleasure in everything you do. Focus not on finishing an odious task quickly to get a reward, but focus on the pleasurable aspects of the task itself and let the thought of reward wait.
Living in the moment is feeling pleasure in the strength of your muscles and fluidity of movement while you exercise. The goal is fitness or weight loss, and exercise is hard work, tempting you to rush through it or to dream of the reward while you exercise.
Living in the moment is feeling the warm sun, hearing the birds chirping, and smelling the earthy soil while you dig postholes. Whatever the reward might be when you finish, if you focus on the pleasurable things about the work itself then it ceases to be an odious chore.
Always putting a reward at the end of a chore is useful but at some point it will fail you. Maybe your self control breaks down, maybe you have cut out the things you were rewarding yourself with. Motivating by reward teaches you that the task is unpleasant and to not do the task unless there's a reward.
I posted this because while he speaks a lot of truth, I think he has the wrong idea about living in the moment.
My understanding of living in the moment is not to avoid work or purely seek pleasure, but to learn to take pleasure in everything you do. Focus not on finishing an odious task quickly to get a reward, but focus on the pleasurable aspects of the task itself and let the thought of reward wait.
Living in the moment is feeling pleasure in the strength of your muscles and fluidity of movement while you exercise. The goal is fitness or weight loss, and exercise is hard work, tempting you to rush through it or to dream of the reward while you exercise.
Living in the moment is feeling the warm sun, hearing the birds chirping, and smelling the earthy soil while you dig postholes. Whatever the reward might be when you finish, if you focus on the pleasurable things about the work itself then it ceases to be an odious chore.
Always putting a reward at the end of a chore is useful but at some point it will fail you. Maybe your self control breaks down, maybe you have cut out the things you were rewarding yourself with. Motivating by reward teaches you that the task is unpleasant and to not do the task unless there's a reward.