The Motivation Hacker

I really liked Nick's style of writing. He used a lot of humorous anecdotes while still providing facts and statistics to back up most of what he said. He also made sure to let us know about anything that he didn't have concrete proof of or things he experienced personally. He also presents it in a way that is relatable (especially you if you nerdy/geeky like me.) He also never makes blind promises like a lot of other other non professionals make (i.e. "You can do ANYTHING if you just believe and want it!")My only complaint is that the end of the book is kind of weak. He finishes by restating his goals without adding much to most of them. I would have appreciated some extra tips/a call to action. However, I don't find this worthy of removing a star as he is an amateur writer and I still really enjoyed the book.Overall, I would still highly recommend the book. Especially if you want an easy to read intro to self help and are on the nerdy side.

This book is written for both the person who needs to get things back on track now, and the person who has good habits, but wants to improve or keep them for longer periods of time. The author breaks down how he believes reverse motivation (or negative motivation) is more helpful than positive motivation. For example, instead of saying "I'm going to allow myself to smoke after I get this thing done" he says "I'm only going to allow myself to smoke three times today". And then adds penalties if he doesn't adhere to his goals.There's a lot more to it than that, separating short term goals from long term and a lot of tips on tools and how to create your own.The one downside I found was at the end of the book, where the last chapter was literally a list of all the things he did and accomplished. Seeing as he addressed most of those during the course of the book as helpful examples, I didn't think they were very necessary and they didn't offer any additional tips. You can easily skip them, which makes the book significantly shorter, where I feel a better wrap up could have occurred. There is also 15% of the book taken up by sourced links alone (the index at the very end).Seeing as the book definitely taught me a number of things and has great insight, I still rated it pretty highly and would suggest buying it.

This is a book about motivation that's written too technically. In the beginning, I was getting a little bored. I actually wanted to know WHY the author wanted to do these goals, and more about the author. I felt like I was reading a textbook when he laid out all of the techniques. It was only until I actually read his story that I got motivated, by seeing how and what he did with his life given his interests and situation....Some of the techniques are interesting and really good, but without context (related to the author's personal life), it didn't have much meaning for me (until close to the end of the book).

A really enjoyable help book. Nick is an amazing guy, I totally depended on Skritter when I was living in China and Code Combat is an awesome idea. So I know he is someone who can get things done, and seeing the goals he put together for 3 months and what he accomplished is inspiring. However the most important part of the motivation hacker is the clarity he helps provide on improving your motivation and reasons why to do it.Not all of the techniques he puts forth are applicable to everyone but a lot are worth a try and he refreshing style in presenting the tools and approaches makes this a more more genuine help book than much that is out there. Highly recommended.

The Motivation Hacker explains multiple strategies to boost your motivation illustrated by the 3-month experiment of Nick Winter to radically be productive (with multiple goals such as reading 20 books, writing 1 book, learning 3000 Chinese words, running a marathon, etc packed in those 3 months). The advise is useful and mostly based on other sources he reviewed, but two things might go against this book. First, it's written from someone heavily focused on tracking and optimizing his life, I agree with this but even for me it was too much. The other thing is that while he achieved to write the first draft of this book in 3 months, some ideas and sections could have benefited from taking more time to be better organized, add more reflection and more edition. It seems a bit rushed or unrefined, a second edition would be useful but as far as I know it doesn't exist

I was surprised and impressed by this book. I am the type of person who spends way too much of his time trying to hack his own motivation and looking online and in other books for ways of accomplishing this. Of course, the Internet is overloaded with such advice, almost all of it bad or dangerously incomplete.This book is short, concise, and complete, in the sense that its content is clearly and transparently implementable in your life. This may be because the book's recommendations are all very simple and concrete. For example: start off with goals so easy that you can't possibly fail them, to build up an implicit expectation that you can achieve your goals. I have never seen this advice framed in quite this way before, but I can tell you that it has worked marvelously for me. I would go so far as to say that I have read most of the advice featured in this book elsewhere before, but only in this book is the advice written in a way that makes intuitive sense.The Motivation Hacker is also written in an engaging style apparently based on the author's genuine enthusiastic personality, never sliding into hyperbole or hammy sales pitches. It's also a short read, so I don't hesitate to recommend it to members of the life-hacker cluster in personspace.

Written with a very casual and colorful style. Gives great tools with examples and context. Recommend

Conocía mucho de los conceptos expuestos en el libro, como la ecuación de la motivación de Piers Steel. Pero ver estos principios en práctica ha sido muy inspirador. La historia personal de Nick utilizando diferentes herramientas para potenciar su motivación engancha muy rápido al lector. Recomendable para todos aquellos que estén sintiendo un poco de desesperanza a causa de su inacción y apatía para terminar el trabajo.

The author seems to be the most cool person i wish to meet. Also extremely intelligent and clever. He proposes simple actions to make ourselves "motivated", but I think it's more than that: it's a life hacker way to look at life, with an enormous amount of vitality. This book is for the people who want to be more clever, more consistent with goals and habits and seek to see life as a good game and not the simple "hustle" mentality.

Es muy fácil de leer y súper divertido. No es como cualquier libro de superación personal. Me ha sorprendido mucho.

But does it really have to be perfect? While reading this book, at every page flip my motivation to do the things that are most in line with my values and my purpose rose exponentially. I noticed that the days I didn't read it were days I was less motivated in comparison. Maybe, somehow, reading about someone accomplishing great things and living a giant's life from motivation hacking made me hunger to be like that someone. I know now, having finished the book, that this made every tip embed more deeply into my brain, and that I'll try much harder to implement them into my life.Another thing I liked about the book was the summary of motivation hacks in the end. It made remembering everything much simpler, and can serve as a quick way to look-up tips later on.The only downside, in my opinion, is that the author, despite writing against it, sometimes makes everything seem too easy to do. I guess that is expected of a professional in anything, though.Overall, a great book and very worthwhile.