We don't want to be totally extrinsically motivated because that can really sap a lot of the enjoyment from life. So while it might be perfectly normal and perfectly healthy for us to be extrinsically motivators, we need an intrinsic motivation as well. Here's Rick's list of things that might serve as forms of intrinsic motivation for somebody. And this then wandered us to a conversation on what I called our pursuit orientation versus having more of a prey orientation.

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