What Rahul Vohra thinks about motivation

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Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

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1. 23 Mar 2025

   Our readingRewards undermine intrinsic motivation, which is why gamification does not work; where it appears to work, the underlying experience was already designed as a game.

   Their wordsAnd that's the problem with rewards is they just massively undermine intrinsic motivation. And that's why gamification doesn't work. And when gamification does work, it's because the underlying experience was already designed like a game.

   ↗Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder)youtube.com 19th of 24 in this recording