Your Brain Craves Completion. Use It.
Breaking work into small, finishable tasks taps into your brain’s dopamine system. Momentum builds motivation.
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We always tend to get more aligned with motivation but few of us know that it doesn't lasts for a long period of time. Instead building a system does.
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