Ap Dijksterhuis
speaker
549 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Ap Dijksterhuis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Extrinsic motivation dries up usually quite quickly.
So Marco quit school when he was 16.
And his father, who also was a kook, said, well, you know, okay, if you want to quit school, you can quit school, but you have to go to work.
And then he said, you know, why don't you go work in the kitchen?
It was a, you know, working class family, no frills, just work in the kitchen.
And Marco...
started to work in a professional kitchen and he said the first time i saw it it was like stepping in a jewelry box he loved it he thought it was absolutely fantastic and within two years he was the pastry chef in one of the best restaurants in the north of england and within a few years he had his first michelin star and he was he was very much intrinsically motivated he loved to cook and he was very creative wonderful chef
And then a few years later, he had three Michelin stars.
He was the most successful young chef.
And then he continued for a while.
And one day he just woke up and he didn't like it anymore.
And he realized that he had been too focused on extrinsic rewards like the three Michelin stars.
And that gradually his intrinsic motivation increased.
Slept away through his fingers.
And his extrinsic motivation became more important.
And actually what he did is he just stopped.
He basically gave the three Michelin stars back to Michelin.
He said you can have them.
I don't need them anymore.
He later in the interviews he said the problem was also that...
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