In this conversation I connected with Sharath Jeevan who is an expert on how to practically re-ignite the inner-drive (or intrinsic motivation) in our lives. He is the Executive Chairman of Intrinsic Labs, which supports organisations all around the world to solve deep motivational challenges. Previously Sharath founded and led STiR Education to re-ignite the motivation of 200,000 teachers, 35,000 schools and 7 million children in emerging countries. He was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2014 and was recognised as one of the UK’s ten leading social entrepreneurs in 2019. His first book Intrinsic is available now in trade paperback, audiobook and e-book formats. We literally talked about: The current crisis of motivation How we can best use the 90k hours of our working lives The false promise of meritocracy (which also cropped up in episode 29 of this podcast with Jack Du Rose) Learning about motivation from the 150th best tennis player in the world Who nurtures the nurturers? So I started out by asking him why do you get out of bed in the morning? Enjoy. https://www.intrinsic-labs.com/ https://stireducation.org/ https://www.weareliminal.co