Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
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Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
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#2This is early 2019. Different world.
There is so little need for stories of overprivilege right now, even for this audience.
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#3Reiss, a professor of psychology at Ohio State University , argues that a diverse range of human motivations can't be forced into these categories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. https://archive.is/57CX
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#4Let me introduce you to my friend burnout.
Even doing what you love and assumed you were intrinsically motived to do you can have a change of heart.
Lots of passionate but overworked game-developers get burned out/disillusioned and go off to employers that don't demand both body and soul for the price of doing the work of their dreams.
edit: I realize the article focusses more on freedom, which might be seen as a separate issue to Games-Industry crunch, but some newly independent game developers will be surprised to learn that how their evil manager used to mistreat them can't hold a candle to what they'll do to themselves...
It's not all doom and gloom, but it's not always all roses either. And with this being a more-than-usually rough year for many people, the downsides are more at the front of my mind right now than the (many and tremendous) upsides.
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#5This is early 2019. Different world. There is so little need for stories of overprivilege right now, even for this audience.
The nunber of narcissists that need this kind of attention - I made money and I gave it all up is reasonable, given the number of software devs in the world, but the visibility of their identically inane stories, amounts to noise. Give me the link to this blogspam along with the success story (of what they ended up doing 5 years later) and it might hold my interest.
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#6Let's just be clear that this article only starts to apply once you have money to live off for the next 5-10 years without working, if then.
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#7>Whenever I got promoted, it felt good for a week, and then it was as over. When I first hit $100K income, I would take a peek at my W2 for a few days admiring the six digits, but then it wore off. When I hit $200K, $300K, $400K, and $500K, it was the same thing. I would be delusional to think that earning $1M, or $10M would suddenly make it
different. And I feel the same with every other extrinsic reward or material possession. Getting them feels good for a while, but this wears off quickly.
Let's not forget that at the 75K they started at, this person was already far beyond what most earners make.
Good on this person for making use of their skills and turning it into a lot of money. But this story just doesn't sit well given the year most people have had. My bubble includes people who are truly struggling this year and it pains me so much to see it.
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#8This is early 2019. Different world. There is so little need for stories of overprivilege right now, even for this audience.
True enough, but this is about the meaninglessness of privilege. The author went to where the grass was provably greener. And it ended up being a valueless delusion. So now it is time for something different. This sounds more similar to current stories of desperation than different.
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#9> I’m going all in on independence, and I’m going to try to make a living with my own bare hands starting from ~~nothing~~.
Good on you for doing your own thing, but I think it's accurate to say you are starting "from nothing". You are starting with lots of things - including 5 years of expenses and a house.
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#10I've been performing well by running from my demons for at least a decade now, and here I thought that was normal.