Is this the key to progressing as a writer? 

Well said. Hear, hear. A domino that made me start thinking about trying to write something was after my parents met my teacher from when I was eight years old. She'd been the teacher of hundreds of pupils after me, but she had kept a story I wrote and read it to every class through the decades as an example story until her retirement. It was quite astonishing to hear, and I have written and published more than a million words since then. It is possible that I would have done that anyway, but it sure got me thinking.

I was listening to a video about a paper debunking 'willpower is limited' tests, partly that they didn't have an unbiased control group. The new paper showed willpower is as limited as you believe it is, that if you believe it's limited then it wears out but if you believe it's unlimited it doesn't. Perhaps it's ironic that point four says your willpower is limited but later in the video point six said whatever you think is your limit is your limit. It seems exactly the kind of trick that the subsconscious likes to pull, old evolutionary pressures coming up with reasonable sounding excuses to convince you to quit. It tries to get you to save up energy, which would be great for our survival if we still lived in a state of nature. It comes up with terrible ideas like "Well you missed today and broke your streak, may as well give up now entirely" and "Just one wouldn't hurt"

Another excellent video that resonates with me, especially the reminder to focus on achieving a few specific tasks throughout your day with a narrow focus rather than attempting several broad tasks only to find superficial results in each. Definitely going to rewatch this when I need a little boost of motivation to get the dominoes falling. Your videos and creative input are very much appreciated.

Lie six, big is bad. How do you eat an elaphant? One bite at the time. That domino story is also fun to reflect on. I belive many can see it in their every day life, helping some understand action and reaction.

Bloody hell, did I need this today. And every day. For the past four years.

This video couldnt have come at a better time!!!

To provide a different perspective on the variables of the domino (exponential to linear) outcomes, I would say that there is little correlation in the accolades of writing (if any are achieved). However, what I have found within myself and throughout my writing journey, there is an exponential amount of improvement in habit, amount, frequency, quality, and ability to take on increased challenge. Which harkens to the fact that as writers it is best to find the validation and the root reason within and through growth. So may I suggest that we not look at the amount of books, sales, fans, and so forth but instead at how far one has progressed in every aspect of their writing journey. To further explain the aforementioned elements of the writing journey, each is important to become a good, consistent writer. Habit would be best to label a specific time (when and where, even how) for your writing. Amount would pertain to the number of words you can write within a day (or other timeframe) most often. Frequency is more focused on how often you do put words onto the page (either in the day or other timeframe), which will likely go hand in hand with habit but not always. Quality is how clear, concise, creative, and perhaps meaningful your writing is (how will others love and understand it best?). And the ability to take on increasing challenge explains itself as you becoming more willing to take on, perhaps, more constraints, more complex characters, or even more outlandish ideas in general that may be hard to explain. Moreover, there may even be more elements that you find have improved in your writing as well and please do share them with us, shine your light! If you are still interested in what I have to say, for some reason, then I can say there over the seven odd years I have been writing there has been an improvement in every element I have listed. My habit had once been poor as I would try writing whenever and wherever I could when inspiration struck. Obviously this proved rather fruitless. However, over the years, with experimenting, and gaining a good balance in life, I have two to three places I write at and often at certain times in the day. Coffee shop, often in the morning or after work. Home in a living room (without a tv) on the couch. And the school I work at as a substitute teacher. With such a developed habit this then increased how much I could write in a day or setting and also increased the frequency at which I write as I often used to take weeks or even months off. But so too had challenging myself to write more in a day developed the habit I have now. Though there are times when I do fall into a heavy slump and take days or weeks off still, which I have to then gradually work in how much I write in a day, at what frequency, and with my current habit. As for the quality of my writing it has increased with so many words, both written, read, and (what I find to never be mentioned) spoken. When I began writing my third ever story, I got confident to share it with some people. One told me that I was being way to descriptive and rigid, which was very true. It was so horrific that with every door my characters walked through I would also provide which type of wood it was made of...not great. Yet now, I keep my writing both concise, but with room to provide a bit of poetic beauty and meaning. Which obviously consisted of challenging myself and I still find ways in doing so today, either with world building, deeper meaning stories, playing with paragraph and sentence structure, and so on.

Ryker, I love your way of thinking. The story about the Dominos is great. Maybe you can make a video about this stunning idea alone. Thank You for this awesome inspiration!!!!

The Domino Effect is a great example in terms of mini achievements encouraging pursuit of increasingly larger ones. It all starts with a story idea and continues from there. I’ve found I can only world-build so much before realizing some aspects don’t fit the original story idea, which often changes key plot points 😅 So for me, it’s almost like I gotta hold a domino from falling while I figure out why it’s falling 😂 (so that I have time to reel things back before diving off the deep end into worldbuilding syndrome)

Excellent insights. Never heard of that book.

I've long known that Focus was the most important thing... And I've long known that lack of focus is my biggest problem! It's an issue that's only gotten worse with age, even though I have far fewer distractions big and small keeping me from writing more often. Sorry the movie funding fell through, and I hope it's only a temporary setback.

You kinda look like Peter Dinklage.