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Your “Kernel”

Understand how your 'kernel' or core drive fuels your motivation and performance. Learn to nurture intrinsic motivation and develop essential mental frameworks, habits, and scheduling practices to sustain your growth and avoid burnout in your coding career.

Keep your drive alive

The last kind of habit is one I cannot articulate for you. You’ll have to find it within yourself. It has many names:

  • Purpose
  • Vision
  • Mission
  • Calling
  • Intrinsic motivation

However, I like the word drive. Lose it, and you will eventually burn out. Keep your drive alive. In Dan Pink’s book on the topic, he notes:

“As children, we are driven by our inner desires to learn, to discover, and to help others. But as we grow, we are programmed by our society to need extrinsic motivations: if we ...