What about Core Drives 4 and 5?
You may have noticed that I mentioned Core Drive 4: Ownership & Possession and Core Drive 5: Social Influence & Relatedness a few times in this chapter (in a White Hat context), and may wonder where they fit into all of this. They are in the middle of the Octalysis model, so are they Black Hat or White Hat?
Generally speaking, Core Drive 4 and Core Drive 5 have the duality of being able to be either White Hat or Black Hat. Often with Core Drive 4: Ownership & Possession, owning things make us feel like we are in control, that things are organized, and our general well-being is improving. We feel powerful and enriched.
However, sometimes the stuff we own start to own us instead. You can imagine a person who buys an extremely rare vintage car, and then becomes afraid of taking it anywhere because he is afraid to damage it or rack up miles. At the same time, he also doesn’t want to leave it at home because he’s afraid it might...