Neil Pasricha || How to Live an Awesome Life
The Psychology Podcast
Are You Putting Your Success on Me?
For a lot of people, the pinnacle of the mountain is getting that New York Times best-selling book and you could kind of just stop there. There's a difference between intrinsic motivators and extrinsic motivators. We can't see the joy of connecting through someone's travel log photos on Instagram when all we're presented with are the number of likes,. The nature of the fun thesis therefore is that what you need to do even after you've had commercial success is not change those, chase that extrinsic motivateator but rather try to get back into the intrinsic feeling of joy that you had when you were producing that thing that was successful in the first place.
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