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Immediate reinforcement helps maintain motivation in the short term while you’re waiting for the long-term rewards to arrive.
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The most effective form of motivation is progress. When we get a signal that we are moving forward, we become more motivated to continue down that path.
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…habit tracking can have an addictive effect on motivation. Each small win feeds your desire.
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…the way to maintain motivation and achieve peak levels of desire is to work on tasks of ‘just manageable difficulty.’
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The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current ability. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right.
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…really successful people feel the same lack of motivation as everyone else. The difference is that they still find a way to show up despite the feelings of boredom.
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Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occurring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.
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…studies on human performance and motivation show our work culture is completely at odds with how we produce our best work…
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Rewards can deliver a short-term boost – just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off – and, worse, can reduce a person’s longer-term motivation to continue…
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The problem is that most businesses haven’t caught up to this new understanding of what motivates us.
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