The Productivity Lie That Won’t Die
Synthetic versus Organic Motivation
5 min readMar 26, 2019
People who seek out motivation never seem to get enough of it. The feeling intoxicates us like a sugar high, but we crash just as hard. And so we search for more of it to sustain the rush. Affirmations, success seminars, pep-talks and self-help books are examples of this type of catalyst.
