The next morning you’re excited on your drive to work. At night you truly enjoy your family time, not because your job sucks and family time is an escape, but because you’re content.
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(I’m not the only one.) If you have one of those lucky days where you spend a full 8 hours without distractions, wrestling with big problems, you’ll come home mentally exhausted but exhilarated. Yes, I’m Scott Whitlock and I’m addicted to flow. Once you’ve experienced this a few times, it’s like a drug.įor someone like me, assuming I make enough money to pay the bills, I would trade any additional money to spend more time in “flow”. Without distractions you can focus your full attention on solving the problem at hand. If you work in any type of creative field, you know the power of flow – that feeling you get when you’re 100% immersed in your work, the outside world seems to drift away, you lose track of time, but you’re incredibly productive.
I believe that’s due to the phenomenon of “ flow“. It costs less, and it’s a stronger motive force. If you have to choose, intrinsic motivation is more powerful.
There’s a big difference between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Of course for more surprising information there’s the classic Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation, and Clay Shirky’s talk on Human Motivation. “In many circumstances” – I’m going to talk about one such circumstance shortly. …it may come as a shock to many to learn that a large and growing body of evidence suggests that in many circumstances, paying for results can actually make people perform badly, and that the more you pay, the worse they perform. The inner workings of the human mind continue to astound us. I don’t agree with tying creative work to performance pay. On the surface I think that’s true – we all appreciate profit sharing, but I think Ken’s talking about performance-metric-based-pay. If the organization profits from this impact, the employee should as well. It impacts teams, groups and profitability. If someone’s working hard, and doing the right things often their impact far exceeds that of just their hourly contribution. My experience when compensation is set up to be win-win it’s a good thing. A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about budgets, and Ken from over at Robot Shift replied:
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