Purpose leverage the human desire of being part of something bigger .

We reach purpose while:

• Doing something that matters
• Doing it well
• Doing it in the service of a cause larger than ourselves

Rewards usually offer a short-term boost. But the effect wears off, and the negative consequence of them remain: they reduce a person’s longer-term motivation to continue the project.

When money is used as an external reward for some activity, the subjects lose intrins...

The assumption of Mastery is that people wish to get better at what they do as long as they care about it.

• Engagement in the task one is pursuing is key to mastery.
• To be engaged, you need to reach the state of flo...

1. Motivation 1.0 - The survival instict: In this situation, the primary things that keep us alive (food, water, shelter) control our actions.
2. Motivation 2.0 - The stick and the carrot: This system assume workers will have no desire to work unless the...

• Type X (Extrinsic): They are driven by external factors such as fame, status, money etc. They can often be highly successful but also troubled by an insatiable appetite for MORE.
• Type I (Intrinsic): Their motivation comes from within – to accomplis...

• They can extinguish intrinsic motivation.
• They can diminish performance.
• They can crush creativity.
• They can crowd out good behavior.
• They can encourage cheating, shortcuts, and u...

• Extrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivators (a raise, a promotion, a bonus) do work they are usually doing so in the short-term only. If the motivator is taken away, the behavior stops.
• Intrinsic motivation. It is the desire to do s...