Psychologists call this unique human ability prospection; as people, everything we do is driven by our prospects of the future.27 Prospection is base… - Benjamin P. Hardy

Deliberate practice requires conscious effort and attention toward specific and challenging goals. Habits are your current self; deliberate practice is focused striving toward your desired Future Self. Reverting to habits or your comfort zone isn’t how you advance.

But ideas can create culture, and culture is perhaps the most powerful force shaping human identity and decision-making.

All goals or motivations fit within two categories: approach or avoid.

For instance, going to work because you don’t want to lose your house is an avoidance-driven goal. Going to work to get a promotion is more approach- motivated.

Your reason or goal, whether positive or negative, approach or avoidance motivated, is the driver of your thoughts, energy, and actions.

In all instances, humans act as we do based on the future we see for ourselves. That may be a future we’re trying to avoid, or a future we’re trying to create.