[gdulli]

I'm internally motivated to do high quality work, but externally motivated to do a high quantity of work. In a low pressure environment I'll do good work but won't create pressure to do the most I possibly can. I don't want an unreasonably high pressure environment, but when things are slow I do wish for more urgency. It's not a problem, it's just an understanding of how I work.

Another reason you might be capable of doing more but aren't is the way work gets done. Many companies or teams now don't know what to do with high output or aren't built for it, they're set up process-first with a lot of task overhead and prefer the predictability that comes with that to maximizing throughput with more surprises.

When I am motivated to do extra work I'm likely to do it when I can just do it, and unlikely when I have to get approval, fit it into a sprint schedule, etc. It can work against you to deliver extra work in an environment where others think of deliverables as zero sum (they're not) and the extra work you deliver doesn't fit into someone else's idea of priority. Again, you don't have to frame it as a problem but a need to understand how you think and work in relationship to different environments.