Can the pressure of work, make us stop loving what we do and how can we avoid this?

That is a good question. Well, I have personal experience about this and a scientific one, so let’s take a look.

My Experience:

I am a basketball player. I have always loved basketball. I have played since I was 3 years old, and only because of my passion and love for the game when I hold the ball I feel like myself and its just an incredible feeling I can’t explain. That made me happy. Just playing, holding the ball, was enough for me, but when I started growing up and my skills improved and I became a really good basketball player, everything flipped. I found out about professional leagues and how professional players won millions of dollars playing the sport I loved, and then that dream became the why I play. I played with the hope that one day I would be playing professionally and winning millions. So from there, I started taking basketball more like a job than a hobby and started putting myself under so much pressure to be the best and win. Every time I made a mistake, I pushed myself to a level that I didn’t wanna play anymore. Because all the work that I was putting in, didn’t get results. But after an accident didn’t let me play for a while, I started being depressed because I couldn’t play. That hard time reminds me, why I started playing in the first place, so I stop focusing on the rewards and more on the game. Now that I found the right team and coach, I have just started to feel that happiness playing again. Because all that pressure made me stop enjoying the game. I was only worried about being the best, proving others wrong, finding a good place on the team. That stress made me lose the joy of playing. It felt like a job and not like a passion. I can blame others, but the main problem was me. I was too focused on the rewards that I stopped enjoying playing at all. But what if I told you, this is human nature?

Scientific study: A recent study with children proves how humans can stop doing things he love for ambition and work. They chose a group of children that loved to draw; they drew because they loved it, and it was fun. So the teachers start giving them a reward or a price for every daily draw. The children started drawing, so much, some of them even made 10 drawings at day . When the teachers stop rewarding them. The children stop drawing idemidiately. Just a few of them continue to draw and still not like before, so much less than when they did it for fun. This study shows how, when something we love starts giving us rewards, we start working just for the rewards. So when we stop receiving those rewards, we immediately stop wanting to work. Even if we did it before without any type of price.

But how can you avoid this?

One way you can avoid this is to focus on the systems and the hard work and stop spending all your energy focusing on the rewards. For example, in the study, the kids started to draw because they loved it. But when they start seeing the rewards, they stop loving drawing the only did it because they loved what drawing brought to them. They lost that passion and love for what they were doing. So the best way to avoid this is to :

-First, remember why you started doing what you are doing.

-Second, focus on the action, on the systems and the hard work. Tell yourself constantly how much you love doing what you’re doing, without a why or reward. This way you will keep enjoying what you’re doing, no matter how much work and pressure that puts on you.

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