How to Avoid One of the Greatest Motivational Traps: The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan — BOOK NOTES
About The Gap and the Gain
This short ebook from Dan Sullivan (Strategic Coach) introduces the concept of the Gap and the Gain. Sullivan discusses the importance of measuring your progress so that you increase motivation to accomplish your dreams, rather than fall into cynicism and despair.
Introduction: How Your Brain Works
- Many talented, high-performing, ambitious entrepreneurs are chronically unable to enjoy their achievements
- They measure their success against the ideal they set, not how far they’ve come
- Your brain isn’t you — you can think about your thinking. Instead of just taking things in, you can be conscious of how your brain is working
- The brain is primarily a problem-solving tool.
- We’re happiest when we use our brains to visualize, achieve, measure progress
- There is a right and wrong way to measure progress.
- People who measure accomplishments in terms…
