What are the best goals to set in order to motivate yourself? It’s simple – put no goals to yourself. Instead, focus on creating a system in which you will like things. So, instead of saying „I’ll write 10 pages each day for a month”, say „I’ll find something which I like doing, like writing, and have lots of fun doing it”. Quotes on this: The researchers came to a stunning conclusion – one they didn’t expect and a result that turned conventional wisdom about both education and parenting on its head. The kids who were rewarded for their pretty pictures chose to spend less time drawing than those who weren’t rewarded. The children who weren’t told about the prospect of any prize continued to enjoy drawing, but the children who were given awards seemed reluctant to carry on without the promise of further honours. The initial award reduced the children’s motivation rather than spurring them on to greater heights. But that’s not all. The investigative team also asked a group of independent art aficionados, who were unaware of the goals of the study, to evaluate the quality of the children’s handiwork. The pictures drawn by the children who were rewarded tended to be rated as less competent, less skilled than those drawn by the unrewarded children. In other words, the rewarded children didn’t just spend less time drawing when given a choice in the matter; they seemed to put less effort into their art too. (source) A new study by a pair of researchers at the University of Chicago …
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