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The dark side of motivation

Motivation is what allows us to survive, prosper and reproduce — but it is also behind the worst of polarization and tribalism. We should use it with care, and engage critical thinking

Koen Smets
8 min readJan 15, 2021

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How come we are here? A good few billion years ago, a bunch of chemicals in the primordial soup that sloshed…

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Koen Smets

Accidental behavioural economist in search of wisdom. Uses insights from (behavioural) economics in organization development. On Twitter as @koenfucius