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I don't think it's useful to mentally categorize "Lack of motivation to self-improvement" as a bias. Not everything is a bias.
It is technically true. But it is also one of the strongest obstacles. If one has motivation, he could overcome other his meta biases, if he doesn't, nothing would work.
In general the literature on congitive biases suggest that most real cognitive biases like the hindsight bias can't simply be overcome by motivation.
By simply calling everything a cognitive bias, it's easy to create the impression that a cognitive bias is simply an error in reasoning like any other error in reasoning.