Personally I found out that my motivation was directly related to being well managed / being poorly managed by others where being well managed is normally somet

Personally I found out that my motivation was directly related to being well managed / being poorly managed by others where being well managed is normally something like: "find me the best possible solution for x, taking into account that we have y and z constrains", and doing things I believe in. There's a world of difference in motivation if you believe in the project goals or if you're in it just for the money. Finding technical challenges is also relevant sometimes, but not that much for me personally. whell maybe what I call workflow optimizations is the lie I tell myself for creating technical challendges.