The Greatest Achievement of Identity, Autonomy, or Selfhood

i poured a substantial amount of my spare time into making rails ours that i did not buill jason for. It wasn't an investment to curry favor with an employer, or even as some shrewd career play for the long term. I wasn't doing it expecting any rewards or advantages then or in the future. On the self actualization front, it was about the three components of motivation, as daniel pink summarized in his book: drive, autonomy, mastery, purpose.