Engaging in difficult activities can make it easier to perform other difficult tasks by increasing self-efficacy.

“The idea that, you know, you can learn like by doing lots of hard things, you learn that you can do hard things and do other hard things. I I think that's really interesting from a motivation perspective because you could argue that, you know, what's going on here is that there's some kind of self-efficacy component that when I've done hard things, my my self-esteem goes up and my estimation and confidence to be able to do harder things increases. And so, and we do know that as self-efficacy goes up, your your ability to do things, your motivation goes up and your ability to perform also goes up.”