A smart old man was being taunted by some teenagers. Instead of attacking them, he gave them each a dollar for being such good taunters and invited them to do it the next day. Next day, he gave them another dollar, but on the third day only a quarter and on the 4th day, he refused to give them anything. Well, they weren't going to taunt for free, so they quit.
What the old man did was to substitute extrinsic reward (money), for the internal reward of pleasure. Worked like a charm.
The next time you read the phrase, "Follow your bliss," know that it means "do things for internal, intrinsic reward, not extrinsic ones.
But realize this will seem counter-intuitive because from early childhood we are offered bribes to poop, grades to read, money to help mom, and trophies to play baseball. That's how we destroy the pleasure of personal bliss.
If you are an Enneagram Three, you are particularly susceptible. The US is a 3 culture and we use an insane threeish metaphor-- "bottom line" --when we mean conclusion. Bottom line is extrinsic; conclusion, pleasure, competency, and bliss are internal.