Yep. I am a fairly intelligent person (your typical coder) from a family that valued education. I was nevertheless never internally driven to do anything. I pla

Yep. I am a fairly intelligent person (your typical coder) from a family that valued education. I was nevertheless never internally driven to do anything. I played a bit with computers when I was a child - BASIC and assembler on C-64, then a little bit of AMOS and computer graphics on Amiga etc. - but it was never any sustained effort that led to anything - I was mostly just satisfying my own curiosity, which didn't run that deep. Instead, I spent the majority of my time playing games (video and otherwise), hanging out with friends, watching TV and reading books. If I wasn't forced to go to school, I think I'd just do more of those things (certainly that's what I did during vacation time). I think what the highly internally driven people cannot understand is that they're the minority and majority of people is more like me.