[One Idea Monday] Motivation, Peer Pressure, Acting Your Age, and A Plug
Happy August ☀️
Here’s another week of One Idea Monday!
1 idea: The intrinsic motivation myth
Imagine you’re trying to get from A to B, and your vehicle is the motivation bicycle. There’s a front tire, representing extrinsic motivation, and a back tire, representing intrinsic motivation.
The current discourse often tells us that the front tire is evil and the back tire is good. We talked about tires so much that we forget the only goal is to get to B.
My argument is that how you are motivated is not as important as what you are motivated to do.
When it comes to getting from A to B with your bicycle, extrinsic motivation alone is not sustainable. But neither is intrinsic motivation. Riding on one tire, no matter which one, is a risky and unsustainable game.
Instead of rejecting and avoiding external rewards, use them to your advantage. Only when we accept that extrinsic motivation is “natural”, can we have the ability to design it to our favor.
Use both tires.
1 blog
It's easy to wake up at 7:30 if your teammate is staying up till 3 a.m to meet you…
1 quote
Acting your age makes you fit in more, while acting your spirit will indeed cause you to stand out—in a bad way to people who act their age, but in an inspiring way to those who act their spirit. ~ Light Watkins
1 plug
I’m hosting a social gathering for Vietnamese who:
1. have received an offer and are preparing to go abroad
2. received an offer but chose not to go abroad
3. are studying/ working/ living abroad
4. have studied/ worked/ lived abroad and have returned to Vietnam
It’s a chance for us to meet, share stories, and form connections with people who want to return to Vietnam in the future. It’s 100% community-oriented, no speaker, no panel, just great people having a great time together.
If you fit the profile, join us HERE!
That’s it from me. See you next Monday!
Cheers,
Akwaaba, Tung