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.
When artists become successful they often seem to lose the spark that got them there. Not sure what to do with that, tho.
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.
I have had the same with my job as IT developer. It was a hobby for years but then I got paid and did my hobby paid, making the hobby less fun.
Now that I’ve grown in my job, I’m more in IT architecture, and less writing code loosely, which makes the hobby field of IT available and fun again.
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.