Uncovering the Shocking Truth about Rewards and Hard Work

The video effectively introduces the concept of dopamine and its effect on hard work, providing clear examples and data to support the point. The speaker's use of experiments and data creates a valuable and personal connection with the audience. The topic is relevant, but the video might benefit from more unique delivery. A call to action could make the structure more complete.
However, because of the way that dopamine relates to our perception of time, working hard at something for sake of a reward that comes afterward can make the hard work much more challenging and make us much less likely to lean into hard work in the future. Let me give you a couple examples by way of data and experiments. There's a classic experiment done actually at Stanford many years ago in which children in nursery school and kindergarten drew pictures and they drew pictures because they like to draw. The researchers took kids that like to draw and they started giving them a reward for drawing. The reward generally was a gold star or something that a young child would find rewarding.