For some reason, your post reminded me of this bookmark I go back to: https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/09/daniel-pink-drive-rsa-motivation/ https://www.br

For some reason, your post reminded me of this bookmark I go back to: https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/09/daniel-pink-drive-rsa-motivation/ https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/09/daniel-pink-drive-r... "In Drive, Pink goes on to illustrate why the traditional carrots-and-sticks paradigm of extrinsic reward and punishment doesn’t work, pointing instead to his trifecta of intrinsic motivators: Autonomy, or the desire to be self-directed; Mastery, or the itch to keep improving at something that’s important to us; and Purpose, the sense that what we do produces something transcendent or serves something meaningful beyond than ourselves."