Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

Another great example of intrinsic motivation.

I went on a hike with my kids about a month ago.

And they'd like see a rock.

They're like, let's see if we can climb it.

That's it.

And if you look at kids, they're so intrinsically motivated.

Before your ass and my ass got beaten down.

By society and grades and you got to do this and you got to do this and got to do this.

We used to have zest in life, right?

We used to get excited to wake up every day.

When I was growing up, like we'd like go outside and we do, I don't even know what for 12 hours.

What'd you do today?

I played outside.

Oh, you want to meditate every day?

Let me give you points.

And if we give you points, then you'll do it more.

If you look at the world that we live in, it is shaping to be extrinsically motivated.

We have lost—I don't know if this is making sense—

We've lost so much intrinsic motivation that we've started to have to bribe people to do shit.

And the more that we bribe people to do shit, the more that we activate their extrinsic motivation.