All people have talents.

All people want to use their talents to create things of value. 

And all people want the things they create to be appreciated.

People want their work to be productive.

It's just that, over time, life experiences and troubling interactions with other people and bad-habit mindsets beat many people’s attitudes down. Ongoing series of real and perceived problems and other people's criticism and worries and grief and many other such things beat many people’s attitudes down.

When spirits are beaten down work performance shrinks away.

We need to bolster spirits before we can expect performance improvements.