Martin’s comedy career is an excellent example of the Goldilocks

Rule in practice. Each year, he expanded his comedy routine—but only

by a minute or two. He was always adding new material, but he also

kept a few jokes that were guaranteed to get laughs. There were just

enough victories to keep him motivated and just enough mistakes to

keep him working hard.

When you’re starting a new habit, it’s important to keep the

behavior as easy as possible so you can stick with it even when

conditions aren’t perfect. This is an idea we covered in detail while

discussing the 3rd Law of Behavior Change.

Once a habit has been established, however, it’s important to

continue to advance in small ways. These little improvements and new

challenges keep you engaged. And if you hit the Goldilocks Zone just

right, you can achieve a flow state.*

A flow state is the experience of being “in the zone” and fully

immersed in an activity. Scientists have tried to quantify this feeling.

They found that to achieve a state of flow, a task must be roughly 4

percent beyond your current ability. In real life it’s typically not

feasible to quantify the difficulty of an action in this way, but the core

idea of the Goldilocks Rule remains: working on challenges of just

manageable difficulty—something on the perimeter of your ability—

seems crucial for maintaining motivation.

Improvement requires a delicate balance. You need to regularly

search for challenges that push you to your edge while continuing to

make enough progress to stay motivated. Behaviors need to remain

novel in order for them to stay attractive and satisfying. Without

variety, we get bored. And boredom is perhaps the greatest villain on

the quest for self-improvement.

🟢📚هایلایت قسمت ۱۵۰ کتاب عادت های اتمی 📚🟢

✅ career : حرفه

✅ excellent : عالی

✅ expand: گسترش دادن

✅ routine : روتین

✅ material : محتوا

✅ guarantee : گارانتی

✅ laugh: خنده

✅ enough : کافی

✅ mistake: اشتباه

✅ behavior : رفتار

✅ stick : چسبیدن

✅ conditions: شرایط

✅ perfect : کامل

✅ establish : ایجاد کردن

✅ advance : پیشرفت کردن

✅ improvement : تقویت، پیشرفت

✅ engage: مشغول شدن

✅ experience : تجربه کردن

✅ immerse: غرق شدن

✅ scientist : دانشمند

✅ quantify : کمیت چیزی را معین کردن، سنجیدن

✅ roughly : حدودا

✅ beyond : فرای چیزی

✅ current : فعلی

✅ ability : توانایی

✅ feasible : ممکن

✅ core : اصلی

✅ manageable : قابل مدیریت

✅ perimeter : حدود

✅ crucial : مهم

✅ motivation : انگیزه

✅ require: مستلزم بودن

✅ delicate : ظریف و دقیق

✅ balance : توازن

✅ edge : لبه

✅ progress : پیشرفت

✅ novel: نو

✅ attractive : جذاب

✅ satisfying : لذت بخش

✅ variety: تنوع

✅ bored : کسل

✅ boredom : خستگی

✅ villain : عامل بد

✅ self-improvement : توسعه فردی، پیشرفت فردی

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