About motivation, Grind and the Comfort Zone gambit
Motivation is a promiscuous bedfellow -Chirag Roy I quote this all the time to friends, family and anyone else who would bother to listen to my meandering train of thought (often masked as life advice). I felt ridiculously wise when I first came up with this line. This is it I thought; the bedrock of my inevitable TED talk which will hit 20 million views and propel me to a life of internet stardom. I had all but started googling ‘How to handle fame’. But then, a problem arose. I couldn't help but feel like a fraud because for all my talk about not relying on motivation, I was hopelessly addicted to it. Like a junkie desperate for the next shot, I found myself unable to get any kind of work done without finding a way to sufficiently incentivize myself. I had fallen into the very trap I kept on warning others about and I just couldn't get myself out. Much like that obnoxious vegan secretly gorging on tandoori chicken behind closed doors, not only was I scamming the public but al...