Introduction to Left Brain (Extrinsic) vs Right Brain (Intrinsic) Core Drives in Octalysis Gamification In a string of snippets from my book Actionable Gamification, we will be exploring topics like the below: Most people talk about how Intrinsic Motivation is better, but is that always the case? And even so, how to design for more intrinsic motivation? There is a lot of literature out there on Extrinsic vs Intrinsic Motivation.