Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

The other half are intrinsically motivated.

It's amazing to see.

Right?

Two kinds of students at Harvard go and volunteer in a jail.

One does it because they care about the people in the jail.

One does it because they want it to look good on the resume.

Those two are not the same.

And the really scary thing about extrinsic motivation is if you have a life...

where you are forced into extrinsic motivation, that circuitry will carry over into the other parts of your life.

That's why it's so hard to find motivation today.

So here's the really scary thing.

You can't have it both ways.

You can't be gunning for the promotion at work and then come home and be intrinsically motivated to do something else.

It's one or the other.

So interestingly enough, everyone's saying, how do I find motivation intrinsically?

You need to let it go extrinsically.

This is where you got to stop caring about the promotion.

And this is where people make a huge mistake.

They say, stop caring about the promotion means, oh, that's easy.

I can mentally check out.