008 - The Coach Up: This Concept Will Change How You Think About Motivation

008 - The Coach Up: This Concept Will Change How You Think About Motivation

Have you ever noticed that your behavior is sometimes misaligned with your goals? You go to school to learn, or take a job to do meaningful work, or join Instagram to keep up with friends. But instead you end up chasing GPA, money, and followers. It's an increasingly prevalent complication in a society obsessed with metrics, where everything is gamified and measured. On today's episode of The Coach Up, Michael Easter, whose books The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain assess the problems of our modern world, details why this happens, explaining the subtle ways in which metrics can hijack our motivation—and how you can guard against that happening.


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