Intrinsic Motivation is Nonsense

If you really want something, you don’t care where the motivation comes from.

Maarten van Doorn
Nov 1 · 5 min read
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“I think the problem is a lack of intrinsic motivation,” a friend recently justified his decision to give up trying to learn to meditate.

He had been at it for a while. By his standards. “It has been a few weeks now and the routine still feels like a…

Maarten van Doorn

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