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@Dface

Isn’t ‘expecting to being motivated’ different than ‘being motivated’?

I can see where you’re coming from. like ‘expecting’ and ‘having’ are different ideas. but I don’t think that means I’ve made a mistake here (?)

I think Elliot was saying this: you shouldn’t expect motivation to do x if you don’t understand some details about x.

And I think the reason for that is that understanding is an important part of motivation (which is the thing I said). So if you don’t have understanding, you shouldn’t expect motivation.

The full quote was:

@Elliot

Overall, I suspect that you aren’t doing it because you aren’t very persuaded because you haven’t thought it through in detail. You could use more knowledge about it and don’t actually know enough yet to reach conclusions. This idea of understanding things in more detail before expecting to be motivated to do them may be useful for @LMD too.

I think the idea here is: being motivated means being persuaded. Being persuaded about something involves (among other things) understanding details about it. So if you don’t understand details about it you shouldn’t expect to be motivated to do it (persuaded to do it). So understanding details are important to being motivated (pursuaded).