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Playing under 2.0, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 11:46 p.m.

In Response To: Playing under 2.0, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation (David Rockwell)

David Rockwell wrote:

Neil not only has a real job, it is a high stress - long hours real job. It would be interesting to see what he could accomplish if he wasn't working.

Right—or rather, if his real job were backgammon. Right now, backgammon simply isn't a real job, the way pro sports is a real job for example.

In response to higonefive, I agree that passion is necessary. It is, however, often not sufficient.

Money is neither necessary nor sufficient but there are many people who have the passion but who for economic reasons do not or cannot spend all their time on their passion.

Messages In This Thread

• Playing under 2.0
  Michael Depreli -- Monday, 11 February 2013, at 7:52 p.m.
  • Playing under 2.0
    Christian Munk-Christensen -- Monday, 11 February 2013, at 9:35 p.m.
    • Playing under 2.0
      Michael Petch -- Monday, 11 February 2013, at 9:48 p.m.
      • Playing under 2.0
        winfox -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 2:00 a.m.
        • Playing under 2.0
          Iancho Hristov -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 9:25 a.m.
    • +1 *NM*
      Frank Berger -- Monday, 11 February 2013, at 10:06 p.m.
    • Playing under 2.0
      Michael Depreli -- Monday, 11 February 2013, at 10:15 p.m.
    • Playing under 2.0
      Michael Depreli -- Thursday, 14 February 2013, at 3:40 p.m.
      • Playing under 2.0
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 14 February 2013, at 8:38 p.m.
        • Playing under 2.0
          Leonardo Jerkovic -- Saturday, 16 February 2013, at 6:04 a.m.
          • Playing under 2.0
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Saturday, 16 February 2013, at 6:40 a.m.
  • Playing under 2.0
    Stick -- Monday, 11 February 2013, at 10:12 p.m.
    • Playing under 2.0
      Timothy Chow -- Monday, 11 February 2013, at 11:37 p.m.
      • Playing under 2.0
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 12:05 a.m.
        • Playing under 2.0
          Stick -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 12:41 a.m.
          • Playing under 2.0
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 1:14 a.m.
            • Playing under 2.0
              Stick -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 2:00 a.m.
              • Playing under 2.0
                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 3:38 a.m.
                • Playing under 2.0
                  Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 5:40 a.m.
                  • Playing under 2.0
                    Dmitriy Obukhov -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 5:49 a.m.
                  • Playing under 2.0
                    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 6:23 a.m.
                • Playing under 2.0
                  Stick -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 2:18 p.m.
                  • Playing under 2.0
                    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 3:53 p.m.
        • Playing under 2.0
          Joe Russell -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 4:27 a.m.
          • Playing under 2.0
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 6:26 a.m.
            • Playing under 2.0
              Michael Depreli -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 7:29 a.m.
              • Playing under 2.0 - against human opponent?
                mtuhtan -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 8:02 a.m.
                • Playing under 2.0 - against human opponent?
                  Michael Depreli -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 9:20 a.m.
                  • Playing under 2.0 - against human opponent?
                    Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 3:31 p.m.
            • Playing under 2.0
              mochy -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 8:27 a.m.
              • Playing under 2.0
                falafel -- Thursday, 14 February 2013, at 8:09 a.m.
                • Playing under 2.0
                  Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 14 February 2013, at 9:30 a.m.
                • Playing under 2.0
                  neilkaz -- Thursday, 14 February 2013, at 6:46 p.m.
                  • Playing under 2.0
                    Victor Ashkenazi -- Thursday, 14 February 2013, at 9:18 p.m.
                • Playing under 2.0
                  Mochy -- Tuesday, 19 February 2013, at 5:52 p.m.
                  • Playing under 2.0
                    falafel -- Sunday, 24 February 2013, at 5:30 a.m.
        • Playing under 2.0
          Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 4:32 p.m.
          • Playing under 2.0
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 5:30 p.m.
            • Playing under 2.0
              David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 6:41 p.m.
            • Playing under 2.0
              Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 11:36 p.m.
              • Playing under 2.0
                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 14 February 2013, at 8:59 p.m.
                • Playing under 2.0
                  Timothy Chow -- Friday, 15 February 2013, at 2:07 a.m.
                  • Playing under 2.0
                    Christian Munk-Christensen -- Friday, 15 February 2013, at 7:08 a.m.
                • Playing under 2.0
                  Bob Koca -- Friday, 15 February 2013, at 4:50 p.m.
      • Playing under 2.0
        6stones -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 6:01 p.m.
    • Playing under 2.0
      Michael Depreli -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 1:30 p.m.
    • Playing under 2.0
      David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 4:53 p.m.
      • +1 *NM*
        Michael Depreli -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 5:12 p.m.
      • Playing under 2.0
        Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 13 February 2013, at 3:13 a.m.
    • Mosconi...
      christian munk-christensen -- Friday, 15 February 2013, at 10:41 a.m.
  • Playing under 2.0
    Phil Simborg -- Monday, 11 February 2013, at 10:46 p.m.
  • Stick's 9 March 2011 Post "Playing under 2.0"
    Paul Weaver -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 12:31 a.m.
    • Stick's 9 March 2011 Post "Playing under 2.0"
      DGArnold -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 12:34 p.m.
      • Stick's 9 March 2011 Post "Playing under 2.0"
        Stick -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 2:11 p.m.
        • Stick's 9 March 2011 Post "Playing under 2.0"
          DGArnold -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 6:20 p.m.
      • Stick's 2.31 PR
        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Thursday, 14 February 2013, at 5:40 a.m.
  • Playing under 2.0, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation
    higonefive -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 5:36 p.m.
    • Playing under 2.0, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation
      Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 8:43 p.m.
      • Playing under 2.0, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation
        David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 9:47 p.m.
        • Playing under 2.0, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation
          Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 12 February 2013, at 11:46 p.m.
          • Playing under 2.0, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation
            higonefive -- Wednesday, 13 February 2013, at 1:24 p.m.
            • Playing under 2.0, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation
              Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 13 February 2013, at 6:27 p.m.
        • Playing under 2.0, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation
          Christian Munk-Christensen -- Wednesday, 13 February 2013, at 1:41 p.m.
  • Playing under 2.0
    Henrik Bukkjaer -- Monday, 18 February 2013, at 10:12 p.m.
    • Playing under 2.0
      Henrik Bukkjaer -- Monday, 18 February 2013, at 10:32 p.m.
    • Playing under 2.0
      Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 February 2013, at 11:10 p.m.
      • Playing under 2.0
        Henrik Bukkjaer -- Monday, 18 February 2013, at 11:48 p.m.
        • Playing under 2.0
          Stick -- Monday, 18 February 2013, at 11:52 p.m.
        • Playing under 2.0
          Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 19 February 2013, at 12:14 a.m.
          • Playing under 2.0
            Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 19 February 2013, at 12:50 a.m.
            • Playing under 2.0
              Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 19 February 2013, at 2:56 a.m.
              • Playing under 2.0
                Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 19 February 2013, at 7:27 a.m.
                • Playing under 2.0
                  Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 19 February 2013, at 5:44 p.m.
            • Playing under 2.0
              Christian Munk-Christensen -- Tuesday, 19 February 2013, at 11:30 a.m.
              • Playing under 2.0
                Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 19 February 2013, at 5:28 p.m.
                • Playing under 2.0
                  Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 19 February 2013, at 6:12 p.m.
                  • Playing under 2.0
                    Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 20 February 2013, at 12:35 a.m.