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Fun goals win.
The crazy thing is that the aggressively nonfun approach doesn’t work. It might
make you look good on Instagram as you impress your friends with your
miserable grind, but scientifically speaking, joyless goals fail.
When you study goal setting you look at a variety of statistical factors, but
the two most interesting are: (1) satisfaction, and (2) performance success. One
speaks to how you felt about the process and the second focuses on what you
actually got done.
A great finishing principle will dramatically increase both. It doesn’t do
either of us any good if I teach you something that increases your satisfaction but
decreases your performance success. You’ll be smiling all the way to last place.
And if your performance success soars while your satisfaction plummets, you’ll
be a miserable winner.
This is why some of the most outwardly successful people you know are
some of the saddest. They crushed the second metric but forgot the first
mattered, too. This was why I was getting better at table tennis but wasn’t really
having fun. To have a great principle, both satisfaction and performance success
must be present. Fun is one of those approaches that checks both boxes.
If the thousands of participants in the 30 Days of Hustle program are any
indication, choosing a goal you believe will be enjoyable increases your
likelihood of satisfaction by 31 percent. This might be the most obvious
scientific conclusion ever made. Of course your satisfaction level will go up
when you do something you enjoy. This just in: Eating ice cream is fun!
But that’s not where the research ends. The second benefit to picking
something you enjoy is that it increases performance success by 46 percent. You
perform better when you pick something you think is fun.

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Study after study has confirmed this. The common myth about high-level
performance is that it must be grueling, painful, and difficult. But the scientists
researching elite swimmers found to their surprise that even at the 5:30
A.M.
practices, the swimmers “were lively, laughing, talking, enjoying themselves.”
They continued, “It is incorrect to believe that top athletes suffer great sacrifices
to achieve their goals. Often, they don’t see what they do as sacrificial at all.
They like it.”
Crawl in the mud all you want, open-mouth kiss electrical wires. Fill your
pants with moray eels. I don’t care. The best way to accomplish something is
just the opposite of all that. Fun isn’t optional. It’s necessary if you’re going to
kill perfectionism and make it through to done.