Is There a Crowd Out of Intense Motivation?

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i think we should worry less about intrinsic motivation crowdout. We often talking about it with adults with behaviours like meditation or exercise, or am rcycling,. things where there's not ambiguity about why i'm doing it. And that really fits the sort of one situation where it seems like this is a problem for kids. A kid is learning, you know, is this, is this fun, or is this work that's different? But that's normally not where we worry about intrinsic motivation Crowdout.

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Katy is an award-winning behavioral scientist and a professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She hosts Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and is the co-founder and co-director of The Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change whose work is being chronicled by Freakonomics Radio. She has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change, including Google, the U.S. Department of Defense, the American Red Cross, 24 Hour Fitness, Walmart and Morningstar. Her research is regularly featured in major media outlets such as The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR. She is the bestselling author of How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.

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