The Importance of Intrinsic Motivation

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Simone Stolsoff: Finding intrinsic motivation tends to be more fulfilling than extrinsic motivation. She says it's the quality of being strongly, maybe too strongly, identified with your job. We'll get into all this over the course of our conversation, but here's Simone to break down the essential difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation.

Do you live to work or work to live? Journalist Simone Stolzoff tackles that age-old question with renewed energy in his book "The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work." All this week, he'll be chatting with host Michael Kovnat about how work came to play such an outsized role in our lives and what would happen if we stopped chasing the dream gig, gave up the idea of having a calling, and instead tried to find jobs that were simply good enough.