Might depend what you mean by motivation. I'm using it to mean both your enjoyment of the work and your desire for its outcome. So I see it as a function of tha

Might depend what you mean by motivation. I'm using it to mean both your enjoyment of the work and your desire for its outcome. So I see it as a function of that. Having more of one could offset the lack of the other, but ideally you'd have plenty of both. If you really like doing something, you'll get good at it, and some stuff might not involve other work you might not like. For example, there's a game I really like playing, I'm quite good at it, I don't care for any outcome, just like doing the work, so putting in time and effort to get good was pretty easy. Other things, I really want the outcome, I'll go out of my way, do things I don't really like doing, because I'm motivated by the result, still feels easy because of that. Now, okay, sometimes there's some things you really hate doing, but it's needed for something you want. I think those are the tricky one, because you need to remind yourself of your goal, how much you want it, and all that, but what you're doing there is motivating yourself. So ya, in my view, motivation is key.