Episode 239: Lose Yourself
Very Bad Wizards
Play Is Not Just a Mean to an End
Intrinsic motivation is like, central to and i like that he talks about that, right? Even psychologists, when they're studying play, usually focus on play as a means to some other end. I think it's more just part of just that western attitude of everything is a means to an end. Everything is instrumental. And you don't need a theory about why you and i would want to do something that gets us into a flow state because it's just rewarding of itself. But then, of course, you can ask the question, so like, why would creatures like us have that? And that becomes an evolutionary question.
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