<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Many people were raised on rewards and punishments... > Many people were raised on rewards and punishments for outward performance, homework finished, grades earned, approval won, while the inner creative self went untended. Approval-seeking can then masquerade as humility and goodness for an entire life, and a person who never develops beyond it may never fully become the individual they were capable of being. **Source:** [[livestreams/All Is Well Within — Gratitude, Pain, and Seeds of Change - Workbook|All Is Well Within — Gratitude, Pain, and Seeds of Change]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Many people were raised on rewards and punishments for outward performance, homework finished, grades earned, approval won, while the inner creative self went untended. Approval-seeking can then masquerade as humility and goodness for an entire life, and a person who never develops beyond it may never fully become the individual they were capable of being.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-people-raised-rewards-individual-capable-being ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->