This Is the Most Powerful Form of Motivation

You won’t get a trophy, but you might just become the person you want to be

Nir Eyal
Forge
Published in
5 min readMay 18, 2020

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Growing up, whenever I brought home a medal, ribbon, or award, my mother always had the same bland response: “Did you have fun?” And then she’d take the prize and stuff it into a box where no one would ever see it.

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Nir Eyal
Forge
Writer for

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