Chris Koerner

To oversimplify.

Those guys that burned my boat.

Toxic motivation.

Exactly.

That's a good way to put it.

To show them I didn't need those boats.

I'm not going back, right?

This island is better than where I came from.

I remember reading about a study on Plan Bs where they got a group of students, two groups, and then they told them to do a puzzle to win a treat.

And then in one of the groups, they told them that they could get this treat at a vending machine down the hallway if they wanted it after.

And the group that didn't understand they could get the same reward from a plan B worked significantly harder to complete that puzzle.

So there's something in the human psyche of when you know that you could get the reward in another way when you have a plan B, we work less hard at the plan A.

100%.

Logically, maybe we should.

You know, we're practical and responsible.

Remove the plan B from our mind.

Yeah.

Yeah, I just like...

I can't think of any stories from people in my sphere of influence that have tested something, quit the plan A, and then plan B just failed.

And like, they just lost everything.