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#169 Dr. Julie Gurner (Part 1): Caring Deeply, Challenging Directly

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How to Motivate Yourself

I think that internal drive is something you can't teach. I do think that as long as someone has that internal hunger and that internal drive, you know, there's an old saying that you should hire people who are PhDs, poor, hungry and driven. And while that may not always be the case, I think the internal drive aspect is something you really can’t teach. But for other people, however, like to tap into that? Absolutely. You have to have kind of this baseline internal hunger to start with.

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