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The best success stories become immortalized. They are held up as examples of courage and its rewards. The failures tend to disappear from sight.
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…the incentive structures we offer inside our companies do not reward us for cooperating, sharing information or reaching across the company to offer or ask for help.
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Research shows that more extrinsic rewards do not add up to greater inner drive. In fact, they have the opposite effect – a decline in intrinsic motivation.
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In the real world, we get nothing for coming in last. Sometimes we don’t even get anything for coming in first.
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The best bosses succeed because they keep chipping away at a huge pile of dull, interesting, fun, rewarding, trivial, frustrating, and often ridiculous chores.
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…even the nicest bosses unwittingly reward followers who shield them from bad news.
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Unfortunately, many bosses who pay lip service to cooperation unwittingly implement reward systems that stomp it out.
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…there are many ways to be happy, but we cannot find happiness. No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness – by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.
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Whether it’s money, grades, promotions, popularity, attention, or just plain material things we want, scientists agree: seeking out external rewards is a sure path to sabotaging our own happiness.
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If we let our desire for more and more extrinsic rewards monopolize our time and attention, it prevent sus from engaging in autotelic activities that would actually increase our happiness.
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