Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

Oh my God, I have no energy.

I have no energy.

Oh my God.

That's because you've turned on your extrinsic motivation.

That circuit in the brain is activated, which means that the moment there's no external pressure, you will not act.

The harder you work to get promoted, the less you will do for yourself in the rest of life.

So this is what's so scary.

I work with so many people.

Who can force themselves into external motivation.

I'm trying to get, and this is back when I was teaching at Harvard and all that stuff and all these like medical students at Harvard Medical School and they're rotating with me and stuff.

They're so like externally motivated.

A lot of them are really great people.

I love it.

It's a real privilege.

But some of them are like really paranoid and they're like, I got to get good grades.

I got to get good grades.

I got to get good grades.

They're so extrinsically motivated.

And so all the dimensions of their life where they're absolutely crushing it are extrinsically motivated.

Half of them are like that.