Only intrinsic motivation lasts. Jason gets it.
If you want to reward someone, it's better to reward past performance than dangle a carrot for future performance.
If you want to reward someone, it's better to reward past performance than dangle a carrot for future performance.
The book Jason mentioned is my absolute favorite on the topic of motivation: amazon.com/dp/B004MYFLDG/…
The gist of the book is this revelation:
"The more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward."
Applies to kids, people at work, and also self motivation. Rewards corrupt people's intrinsic motivation.
"The more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward."
Applies to kids, people at work, and also self motivation. Rewards corrupt people's intrinsic motivation.
If you don't have time to read a 500 page book, at the very least I highly recommend this 12 minute clip of when the author went on Oprah in 1996:
