"Learning to be motivated solely by naturual rewards is also necessary if you want to be your own boss. Yes. they often achieve external rewards such as money or praise. But these are never givens. There's no boss to guarantee you'll get them. You can try to approximate them."
What does it mean by "you can try to approximate them"?
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Since you don't have a boss, you have to try to provide your own rewards, in the form of the satisfaction you get from a job well done or getting paid (well). Or take yourself out to dinner :-)
Erklärung: You can to bring near to the givens such rewards that is imitate that process somehow. What exactly this means I suppose the explanation follows.
salavat Russische Föderation Local time: 06:16 Arbeitsgebiet Muttersprache: Russisch PRO-Punkte in Kategorie: 4
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come as close as possible
Erklärung: another way of saying it
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Since you don't have a boss, you have to try to provide your own rewards, in the form of the satisfaction you get from a job well done or getting paid (well). Or take yourself out to dinner :-)
Trudy Peters Vereinigte Staaten Local time: 20:16 Arbeitsgebiet Muttersprache: Deutsch, Englisch PRO-Punkte in Kategorie: 2
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Thank you !
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Fragesteller: Could you kindly explain why the author says "But you can try to approximate them"? I know the literal meaning of the word and "them" refers to "external rewards" here.
But it is still unclear what it means by the author saying so.
The translation workplace 
