Masters in Business · Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Tyler Gardner believes that people do not inherently dislike work but rather dislike being told what to do and working with people they don't respect. He highlights that gaining agency, authorship, and autonomy over one's work dramatically increases motivation and job satisfaction.
“I think just building on exactly what you just said, I don't believe that humans hate work. I don't. I don't buy it. I don't think I ever will. I think humans don't like being told what to do and working with people they don't respect.”
“The second you can get out of that and kind of have your own agency or your own authorship or autonomy, call it whatever you will, instantaneously, you now have the capacity to go work with other people that you say, oh, I really do respect this person or I'm really drawn to this person's energy.”
“So for me, when I switched to this, the heaven on earth that I created was, again, just being able to wake up and say, if I want to work on a great podcast script today, I can do that for 10 hours. If I want to go film 20 videos today, I can do that.”