Tag: Motivational

Motivation puzzle

Intrinsic Motivation what is it about?

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Intrinsic Motivation

Motivation is a tricky subject!! Why?

Does incentivizing work? I mean will rewarding yourself or rewarding your team or family, for every task keep them motivated all the time?

The above argument may be correct for linear tasks, where we know the rules and we know the destination, determining the path of resolution is simple and easy, however, getting rewards for these kinds of tasks soon makes you the same as before.

The answer is “Intrinsic Motivation”.

We should have Autonomy while performing the task.

We should have a Mastery of skills to perform the task.

Most important there should be a “purpose”

Here below is an excellent presentation by Dan Pink at TED

https://youtu.be/rrkrvAUbU9Y

Also please see “Define Motivation“

Story about Karma

Wonderful Story about Karma

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Story about Karma

An elderly man and his wife went to a small hotel.

They requested a room for the night and it is raining outside continuously.

The Clerk at the front desk told them, as there are three conventions happening in the town, all the rooms are booked.

However, empathy makes us humans!!

The clerk offered his own office room, though it is not a suite but good enough to make the elderly couple comfortable for the night.

As they leave the hotel in the morning, the elderly man said to the clerk “you should be the manager of the best hotel in the USA”

The clerk looked at the couple and smiled, they had a good laugh.

Two years passed, and the clerk got a letter and enclosed it with round-trip tickets for New York, the letter was written by the elderly man requesting him to pay a visit and remember their last visit.

The elderly man met him in New York and took him to a new majestic building.

The elderly man said to the clerk “This is the new hotel I built for you to manage”

The old man’s name is William Waldorf Astor, and the clerk’s name is George C. Boldt, The hotel’s name is “Waldorf-Astoria Hotel”

Karma