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Whatever your motivation – attention is the link between your goal and the resources you bring to it.
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176 |
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Your motivations – aren’t impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what you focus on.
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176 |
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…extrinsic focusing on trouncing the competition or a monetary reward can actually decrease our intrinsic motivation to pursue a goal.
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178 |
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how you decide to spend your time and make other choices that affect your quality of life is closely bound up with attention…
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178 |
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In the short term, the interplay of attention and motivation is crucial to taking care of business, and in the long term, it helps to make you who you are.
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187 |
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Intrinsic motivation – deep engagement in the work – can drive people to surprising displays of seemingly unrewarded effort.
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034 |
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…if extrinsic motivators are extremely strong and salient, they can undermine intrinsic motivation; when this happens, creativity can suffer.
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035 |
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…as long as the work is meaningful, managers do not have to spend time coming up with ways to motivate people to do that work.
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035 |
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This is the inner work life effect: people do better work when they are happy, have positive views of their organization and its people, and are motivated primarily by the work itself.
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047 |
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When people’s motivation for a job has become purely extrinsic – when they are just putting in their time to make a buck or to get the benefits – they will do only what they must do, and no more.
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062 |
