Motivation: The Effects of Prasing People for Their Effort

When I wake up in the morning I am not doing it because I’ll die if I don’t, or because someone else is counting one me to help them, I do it because I want to someday obtain a BS in Business. Without that motivation to get up everyday, I may not attend school, or study for tests, or work on my essay. However, I think to myself, “why?” What and where in my development did I learn to be motivated, and how does the motivation continue to grow. How will I be able to motivate others, and sustain self-motivation once I become a business leader?

In Daniel H. Pinks Drive, Pink discusses the surprising truth about what motivates us. In a twitter type summary of Pink’s book he describes it as, “Carrots & sticks are so last century. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery & purpose.” Pink begins by discussing three different types of Motivation levels humans have gone through. Starting with 1.0, then 2.0, and finally the future 3.0. The first version had to do with a more simple human, who only needed survival methods, then Motivation 2.0 had to do with the fact that humans responded to rewards and punishment. Motivation 3.0 is the upgrade that humans need today, which includes the need for humans to learn, create, and create a better world, (Pink 2009). The three essential items for this approach is autonomy, mastery, and purpose, (Pink 2009).

In both Pink’s book and Wade and Tavris’ text book they examine and realize that when people are praised for intelligence, and when people are praised for their effort. Overall being praised for effort results in people wanting to master a skill, no matter how well they perform, it is the skill they acquire that sets the tone of who they are. Thi...

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...tion, as well as be able to motivate others you have to allow people to be praised for effort, and not just intelligence. With the more complex human mind that is individually being catered to, I too have to know how an individual is motivated, and what it takes for them to continue to be motivated through their own personality and behavior, and in the end create a better world.

Works Cited

Pink, D. H. (2009). Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us. New York: Riverhead Books.

Sheng-Ping, T. (2013). Personality, Motivation, and Behaviroral Intentions in the Experiential Consumption of Artworks. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 41(9), 1533-1546.

Wade, C., & Tavris, C. (2012). The major motives of life: Food, love, sex, and work. In Invitation to Psychology (5 ed., pp. 467-501). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.