Key Lesson

Key Lesson: External rewards can undermine intrinsic motivation and creativity.

— from Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation) · Drive by Daniel H Pink

In the book

First, understand where real motivation comes from, because most people get it backwards. It is not, in the end, the carrots and sticks; external rewards reliably undermine the deeper kind of drive, especially for anything creative. The lasting fuel is three things: autonomy — the freedom to direct your own work; mastery — the deep human drive to get better and better at something that matters; and purpose — the sense of serving something larger than yourself. — Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)

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