#141 Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations

I think there are a few entrepreneurs that come out that have had protected their generative drive, protected their curiosity, their creativity as they manifest their aggressive drive, and they didn't let their pleasures and their enjoyment of success corrupt them in a way that took their eye off the ball.

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Most entrepreneurs are highly achievement-driven. Psychologist Henry Murray devised a characteristic that he called “the need to achieve,” which refers to an individual’s desire for significant accomplishment: intense, prolonged, and repeated efforts to accomplish something difficult. To many highly driven people, achievement is oftentimes more imp

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