
116c. East Asians don't respond to intrinsic motivation, and other gems
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The Affidavit
I realized that the very actions that make me make this podcast are things which feel quite Western. I was stuck too long on thinking about psychology as the key, you know, that we really need to understand psychology and everything will fall into place. That again, it's psychology is all about understanding firstly the mind and secondly the individual - both of those perspectives are very Western. And so when there are things where you realize that,. okay, that is actually something which I've adopted and it's not really something that I've created. The reason I overvalued this is partly because of my heritage and partly simply because of the way I was brought up.
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