In the times that you felt completely connected to your work, where everything else floated away, what were some commonalities of those events that you might be able to isolate? Your work was challenging, but not impossible. You were likely connected, in part, to the goal of the task. You did the work regardless of outside influence or reward. The act of doing the work was a reward unto itself. In recent years, a lot of studies have been done about intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. Intrinsic rewards come when you do something for the sake of doing it, and extrinsic rewards come when you
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