Motivation & Goal Setting Get Motivated Fast & Reach Goals

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Motivation & Goal Setting Get Motivated Fast & Reach Goals

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About

Motivation's Ascent and Decline 2.0

The Triumph of Carrots and Sticks

Reasons Why (Frequently) Carrots and Sticks Don't Work

The Particular Situations When They Do

Type I and Type X

Independence

Mastery

About

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Motivation's Ascent and Decline 2.0

Say the year is 1995. You take a seat next to an economist, a Ph. D. holder and distinguished professor at a business school. about economics. I have a crystal ball here that can peer fifteen years into the future, you tell her. She is dubious but chooses to laugh at you nonetheless. I'd like to test your forecasting powers. I will discuss two recently released encyclopaedias and one that will be released in the coming years. Bring it, she responds. You have to predict which will be more successful in 2010." The initial encyclopaedia is produced by Microsoft. Microsoft is already a sizable and successful business, as you are aware.

And with the release of Windows 95 this year, it's going to grow into a titan that defines an entire period. This encyclopaedia will be funded by Microsoft. It will compensate experienced editors and writers to produce articles on thousands of subjects. The project will be overseen by well-paid managers who will make sure it is finished on schedule and under budget.

After then, Microsoft will offer the encyclopaedia for sale online and on CD-ROMs. There will be no corporate source for the second encyclopaedia. Tens of thousands of people who write and edit articles for fun will produce it. To join, these amateurs won't need to meet any requirements. Furthermore, no one will get paid to write or edit articles with dollars, euros, or yen. It will be required of participants to provide free labour, sometimes ranging from twenty to thirty hours each week.

The encyclopaedia itself will be available online and be free to use for anybody who so desires. You tell the economist, Now, imagine fifteen years from now. My crystal ball predicts that in 2010, one of these encyclopaedias will be the biggest and most well-known worldwide, while the other will be out of business. Which one is it?I doubt that there was a single sober economist on the face of the earth in 1995 who would have chosen the first model as the winner.

Any other outcome would have been absurd and went against almost every business concept she instilled in her students. It would have been like asking a zoologist to predict the winner of a 200-metre footrace between your brother-in-law and a cheetah. Not even near it. Indeed, that motley crew of volunteers could come up with anything. However, its product could not hope to compete with that of a strong, profit-driven firm. All of the incentives were incorrect.

Everyone involved in the other project knew from the beginning that success would not benefit them, but Microsoft stood to benefit from the success of its product. Most importantly, Microsoft paid its managers, authors, and editors. The donors to the other project weren't. In reality, each time they worked for free rather than getting paid, it most likely cost them money. Our economist wouldn't have even considered including the topic on an exam for her MBA class because it was so obvious. Too simple a task.

However, you are aware of how things ended. Microsoft discontinued MSN Encarta, their disk and online encyclopaedia that had been available for sixteen years, on October 31, 2009. In the meantime, Wikipedia—that second model—became the world's biggest and most well-known encyclopaedia. What happened? Eight years after Wikipedia's founding, it included over 13 million articles in about 260 languages, with three million of those being in English alone. This conclusion defies the standard understanding of human drive. 

The Triumph of Carrots and Sticks

All computers have operating systems, whether they are the massive mainframes used in Deci's studies, the iMac I'm using to write this, or the cell phone ringing in your pocket. Underneath the surface of the hardware you interact with and the programs you use, there is a sophisticated software layer that houses the protocols, assumptions, and instructions necessary for everything to work as it should.

The majority of us don't give operating systems much thought. They only become noticeable when they begin to malfunction, that is, when the software and hardware they are meant to oversee become too complex and massive for the operating system that is now in use to handle. Then, our PC begins to malfunction. We grumble. And astute programmers, who have always been fiddling with various aspects of the program, get down to designing an upgrade that is essentially superior.

Operating systems also exist in societies. Over a layer of guidelines, conventions, and presumptions about how the world functions are the laws, social mores, and economic structures that we come into contact with on a daily basis. Furthermore, a large portion of our social structure is predicated on presumptions about how people behave. During our very early times—roughly 50,000 years ago, to be exact—the fundamental presumption of human behaviour was accurate and straightforward.

Our goal was to live. That impulse dictated most of our activity, from foraging across the savannah to hiding in the bushes from sabre-toothed tigers that threatened to eat us. Motivate 1.0 is the name of an early operating system. It wasn't particularly graceful, and it didn't differ all that much from the rhesus monkeys' or the great apes' or many other species'. However, it did us a favour. It was effective. Before it didn't.

An operating system based only on biological drive proved insufficient as people developed more complex civilizations, interacting with strangers and requiring cooperation to complete tasks. To be honest, there were moments when we had to find ways to control this need so that neither you nor I would steal my partner's food. We therefore gradually replaced what we had with a version that was more in line with how we'd started working and living, in a feat of amazing cultural engineering.

This updated and more accurate underlying premise—that humans are more than the sum of our biological drives—formed the basis of this new and enhanced operating system. Without a question, that first drive was important, but it didn't entirely explain who we are today. A second motive was to look for rewards and, more generally, to stay out of trouble.

We'll refer to this new operating system as Motivation 2.0 because it was inspired by this realisation. (Yes, other animals have reward and punishment systems as well, but only humans have been able to use this drive to create everything from convenience stores to contract law.) Using this second drive has been crucial to the development of global economies, particularly in the last 200 years. Think about the Revolution in Industry.

The invention of steam engines, railroads, and widespread electrification were among the technological innovations that greatly contributed to the expansion of industry. However, less material advancements also made an impact, most notably the contributions of American engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor. Taylor created what he called scientific management in the early 1900s because he thought that companies were being operated in an ineffective, disorganised manner.

His creation was a type of software that was skillfully designed to operate on top