If you found this interesting, read his book - Punished by Rewards. It's amazing. I read it at a young age (13 maybe?) and it totally changed my life. Here's t

If you found this interesting, read his book - Punished by Rewards. It's amazing. I read it at a young age (13 maybe?) and it totally changed my life. Here's the real takeaway: in this life, almost everyone (at least in the US?) is conditioned, on every level possible, "do that, get this." It's not just about money, but approval, self-esteem, good grades, a place in society, a decent life, a good relationship, healthy children. We learn this lesson at our parents' knees, it's confirmed in school, and cemented in employment/college education. The only real reason to do something is because you love it enough to bring it into being. (This is not the same as "loving what you do," because the production of outcomes you love enough to create will inevitably contain work you aren't going to love in and of itself. Like, for example, exercise and practice -- not always loveable. The key here is that the love is aimed at the way you want to change the world, in whatever fashion.) Anything else is some combination of carrot/stick -- they are flip sides of the same coin, and neither work well, in the long run, and both lead to burnout. Even if you think you "have" to have pressure to produce, you don't. Even if you think you "have" to have a business goal to create, you don't. Even if you think you have to taunt yourself with images of what will happen if you don't do what you "ought to," you don't. If you can step outside this reactionary type of living model, it's amazing what you can do.