You touch on something important.<p>&quot;Do them because you want to, and not because of some other goal like money attention, rewards, etc.&quot;<p>This is an important preliminary step, toward productive mania, I believe.  It&#x27;s not clear though how to induce this.  Are we really in control of what we find intrinsically motivating?<p>Let&#x27;s say I have a programming project I&#x27;m working on.  I&#x27;m excited about it, but only moderately so.  I have a goal of turning it into a business, and making a moderate passive income from it.  How can I turn this decent energy and motivation, into something explosive?<p>It would seem that I need to muster some intrinsic motivation, some desire to work on the project just for the sake of working on it, not for completing it, or making a business from it.  I&#x27;m not sure how to accomplish that, or if it&#x27;s even really possible when you&#x27;re doing something that isn&#x27;t entirely novel and new.<p>It&#x27;s easy when something is new - You&#x27;re intrinsically motivated to pursue it because it&#x27;s, novel and exciting.  But when you&#x27;ve done something before, it&#x27;s less simple to find that intrinsic motivation.