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Denys Lamontagne
Duration dosage
It's easy to make an intense effort for a short time - it's a survival mechanism well ingrained in our genes - but when it comes to sustaining an effort over time, other factors come into play, as much biological and physical as mental and social: living beings that last are organized to last.
Enduring the "test of time" is another way of saying that we've found a way to avoid wearing out, exhaustion and renewal. Those who endure know how to set aside areas for recuperation, maintain sources of support and allow themselves time for reflection and learning, hence the idea of dosage, of measuring effort.
Duration feeds progress; being able to estimate it sustains hope, provides satisfaction and ensures that we're heading in the right direction. Several conditions are systematically present in anything that lasts. These conditions - a mixture of organization, motivation, competence and satisfaction - can be taught, set up and maintained. In this way, seemingly insurmountable difficulties can be tackled from a different, long-term perspective, without discouragement.
A faltering relationship can be renewed... or ended. Creating new goals and projects gives meaning to the long term, and provides the foundation for it. Thot has been running for almost 30 years; its craftsmen still find pleasure in it and continue to renew themselves, rest assured.
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- What lasts between humans
- The conative: what moves us to learn
- The secret of those who go far
- Memory anchoring, a natural antidote to the forgetting curve
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