>If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

>If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I've noticed this in my software work. When I'm on a project that I'm personally excited by, I feel like I'm firing on all cylinders and am vastly more productive. Driven by COVID fear, I switched jobs over the summer to a company that would allow me to work from home. I'm not at all interested in the project I'm working on. And I feel like it shows...I don't retain things that coworkers have already explained, I don't feel a drive to learn more than necessary about the domain, etc. Maybe some of it is just COVID-brain, but my goodness being interested in your work makes a world of difference.