Screw motivation, what you need is discipline

Discipline > motivation

Edition 053 of Design Insight

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📃 3 Articles

Screw motivation, what you need is discipline

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Discipline > motivation.

2. Relying on motivation assumes you need to be in a particular mental or emotional state to complete a task.

3. Discipline on the other hand separates how you feel from the action of doing the task. You do the thing anyway, regardless of how you feel.

Screw motivation, what you need is discipline ➜

This Morning Routine will Save You 20+ Hours Per Week

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Work in short intensive blocks of deep work followed by a period of rest and recovery - 20% + 80%

2. Manage your energy instead of managing your time.

3. Practice psychological detachment from work. Don’t think or do work outside of work hours.

This Morning Routine will Save You 20+ Hours Per Week ➜

Slice And Dice Strategy

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Define the problem correctly and you’ll almost have the solution.

2. If you break a problem down into its simplest form and then focus on improving each thing by 1%, you’ll get an exponentially better result.

3. Start with a challenge statement, break it down into its simplest parts, do a SWOT analysis, develop a plan, then execute the plan.

Slice And Dice Strategy ➜

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Wappalyzer ➜

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Tailwind Elements ➜

• Bootstrap components recreated with Tailwind CSS, but with better design and more functionality.

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Design Tip

Ridd 🏛 @Ridderingand

I've used the exact same process to build countless color systems over the years... It's EASY to reproduce and it works every time 💯 5 steps for building your next color system 👇

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