Intrinsic motivation is crucial for overcoming akrasia — LessWrong
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tl;dr: If you struggle with motivational problems, it's likely that the problem is not intrinsic to you, but instead that you haven't yet found work…
x Intrinsic motivation is crucial for overcoming akrasia — LessWrong Motivations Personal Blog 29 Intrinsic motivation is crucial for overcoming akrasia by JonahS 17th Jun 2015 4 min read 43 29 tl;dr: If you struggle with motivational problems, it's likely that the problem is not intrinsic to you, but instead that you haven't yet found work that you find very interesting. How I discovered how to do great work Last winter I did something that I had never done before. I spent ~1500 hours working on genuinely original scientific research. I had done research for my PhD in pure math, but faced squ
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