Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

That's incorrect.

Doesn't work.

You need to do something internally.

Make a choice.

Second thing that you need to do to activate your intrinsic motivation is stretch your capacity.

This is the second thing that...

People who are extrinsically motivated never do.

You want to know why everyone feels so directionless in life?

It's because they never stretch their capacity.

In fact, what they try to do is the minimum of their capacity.

How hard can I work to not get fired?

We have all this like anti-work stuff going on.

Do companies take advantage of people in a really shitty way?

Absolutely.

And how do we respond to this?

We respond to this by doing the bare minimum.

And there's a lot of boomers out there who are like, you should work hard and you should do this and you should do this and you should do this.

And my day we worked hard.

I'm not saying you should or shouldn't work hard from a work standpoint.

What I'm saying is that from a neuroscientific standpoint, if you do the bare minimum, you will never be internally motivated.