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How Successful People Think & What You Can Do to Make it Easier to Achieve Your Goals

August 15, 2023 / 00:33

This episode discusses the "Mary Poppins effect," focusing on how making tasks enjoyable can help achieve goals. The conversation highlights the importance of finding joy in the process for both children and adults.

The hosts explain that Mary Poppins' famous line about a spoonful of sugar illustrates the idea that enjoyment can facilitate goal achievement. They emphasize that adults, like children, benefit from making tasks more enjoyable.

Listeners are encouraged to consider how they can incorporate fun into their daily routines to enhance productivity and satisfaction.

TL;DR

Making tasks enjoyable helps both kids and adults achieve their goals.

Episode

0:33
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the Mary Poppins effect is really just a
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description of what Mary Poppins sings
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about in her famous verses saying a
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spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go
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down she understood and communicated
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this when it comes to children that we
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actually need to find a way to make it
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enjoyable to pursue goals but it turns
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out that adults are wired the same way
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as kids and rather than trying to work
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against that what we need to do is lean
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into it and try to find ways that we can
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make it more enjoyable in the moment to
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do the things that are going to help us
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achieve our goals
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Episode Highlights

  • The Mary Poppins Effect
    Exploring how Mary Poppins teaches us to make tasks enjoyable for both kids and adults.
    “A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.”
    @ 00m 06s
    August 15, 2023
  • Enjoyable Goal Pursuit
    Adults are wired like kids; we should lean into making our goals enjoyable.
    “We need to find a way to make it enjoyable to pursue goals.”
    @ 00m 12s
    August 15, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.
    How Successful People Think & What You Can Do to Make it Easier to Achieve Your Goals
  • We need to find a way to make it enjoyable to pursue goals.
    How Successful People Think & What You Can Do to Make it Easier to Achieve Your Goals

Key Moments

  • Enjoyable Goals00:12

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