Types of motivations
- Biological - need for food, sex and shelter
- External rewards - carrot and the sticks from the environment
- Intrinsic motivation - self actualization
deeply satisfying
- personally challenging
Insights
- Giving external rewards (money) detract from intrinsic motivation
- Higher incentives leads to worst outputs
Fraud?
- Rewards leads to narrower focus - only useful when there is a clear path to a solution
Factors impacting intrinsic motivation
- Greater autonomy - leads to more engagement - more intrinsic motivation
- Greater Control - leads to more compliance - less intrinsic motivation
Types of jobs
- Algorithmic
repetitive / routine
- requires direction
- not motivating
- Heuristics - more abstract and unstructured
self-direction
- non-routine
Mastery
- To be strived for
- Opposed to flow which is experienced
- Is a mindset
- constant struggle leads to pain
- Needs a purpose
Honor
- Truth
- Love
- Justic
- Beauty
- Requires deliberate **practice **
keep increasing its complexity
- Needs feedback
References
- *Predictably irrational,* Dan Ariely
- *Beyond Boredom and Anxiety*, Csikszentmihalyi
- *Dumbing us down*, John Taylor
- *The un-schooling handbook*, Mary Griffith
- *The Teenage liberation handbook*, Grace Llewellyn'
- *Talent is overrated*, Geoff Colvin
- *Why we do what we do: understanding self-motivation*, Edward L.DECI
- *The war of art, *Steven Pressfield