With the Motley Full Money Extra, I'm Chris Hill.

Charles Doohig won a Pulitzer Prize as a reporter with The New York Times and became a best-selling

author with his book The Power of Habit.

We talked a few years ago during the release of his follow-up book Smarter Faster Better,

the secrets of being productive in life and business.

And one of those secrets that Charles shared is about motivation.

Namely, that motivation isn't something that just comes from within.

Motivation is a skill that can be learned.

This really came home for me when I was learning about the Marines.

So most of us think about the Marine Boot Camp as a place where people go to learn discipline,

right?

We've all seen those movies you show up and like someone yells at you and you learn

to follow orders.

And at one point that's what Boot Camp was. But in the last 15 years or so, they've

actually completely redesigned Boot Camp, particularly as millennials that started coming into

the armed forces.

What happens now is that they're trying to teach people how to generate motivation, particularly

self-motivation.

And the way you do that is you teach people to start seeking out choices that make them

feel like they're in control.

How do they do that?

Well, it's really interesting.

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