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…the first tactic for helping people find greater personal motivation is to avoid demotivating them by inviting choice rather than giving orders.
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090 |
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…the gold standard for tactics for engaging personal motivation is direct experience. Let people feel, see, and touch things for themselves.
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092 |
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We often don’t act in our long-term best interest because the short-term actions we currently enjoy are far more motivating than the remote and distant likelihood of suffering in the future.
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111 |
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…if you’ve done your work with both personal and social motives, symbolic awards take on enormous value.
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228 |
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Loss aversion refers to the relative strength of two motives: we are driven more strongly to avoid losses than to achieve gains.
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302 |
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If you are set to look for it, the asymmetric intensity of the motives to avoid losses and to achieve gains shows up almost everywhere.
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304 |
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Except for the very poor, for whom income coincides with survival, the main motivators of money-seeking are not necessarily economic.
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342 |
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…boredom can motivate us by signaling that a more rewarding activity might exist.
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062 |
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…it turns out that excellence is a bigger motivator than even money…
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064 |
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Although frenemy relationships are linked to greater stress, they also motivate us to work harder.
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071 |
