There’s a studied effect on pro athletes where getting paid to play makes them lose their love of the game, and I think it’s something like that. Anecdotally I used to love acting but I didn’t even last a year in the theatre industry before I burned out and haven’t acted in a single thing since.
That same effect has been documented in kids who were paid to draw. After being paid to draw, they were far less likely to choose to draw when given a choice of activities.
Super important thing to understand about psychology if you want to motivate people.
I assume it’s less about being paid and more about it breaking their body as they inject a designer cocktail of drugs daily while they play or train for the same game all day every day.
There’s a studied effect on pro athletes where getting paid to play makes them lose their love of the game, and I think it’s something like that. Anecdotally I used to love acting but I didn’t even last a year in the theatre industry before I burned out and haven’t acted in a single thing since.
That same effect has been documented in kids who were paid to draw. After being paid to draw, they were far less likely to choose to draw when given a choice of activities.
Super important thing to understand about psychology if you want to motivate people.
I assume it’s less about being paid and more about it breaking their body as they inject a designer cocktail of drugs daily while they play or train for the same game all day every day.