Studies show that Americans work longer hours and have more stress-related illness than their European and Japanese counterparts. Some of this is due to stagnant wages and outdated overtime laws, but some of the problem is embedded into, particularly in technology and finance jobs. I believe that motivation is part of the reason why Americans work longer hours relating to excitement and challenges to meet timelines of projects. Instead of constantly trying to motivate everyone to work more and stress out, maybe we need to calm everyone down. It could reduce anxiety, commuter road-rage, heart attacks and maybe even reduce our national carbon footprint.