> "So if you find yourself lacking some motivation, maybe thats why you aren’t that great. Go find it and last time I checked, money pushes so many people forwa

> "So if you find yourself lacking some motivation, maybe thats why you aren’t that great. Go find it and last time I checked, money pushes so many people forward." The problem is that money isn't motivation to actually enjoy programming. When you start coding to get money, you're seeing coding as means to an end, and not an end in and of itself. That sucks all the fun out of coding just for its own sake. I used to love coding games. Then I realized I could sell them for money. I started making games at a much faster rate in order to make more money, but suddenly the game making part was not as much fun any more. I wasn't pushing my own boundaries any more; instead, I was just rehashing what I already knew and had already made into new layouts to create another game. Once I realized this, I stopped selling games, but enjoying coding just for coding took a while to fully came back. I could argue that it only just now came back, about a year after I stopped selling my games.