Great mail by Lee Holmer and Alan Mossman! Thank you!!
My intuition is, that motivation is between inside and outside, but I
couldn't realy fix it. You brought in the right word in the right place:
The task!
One demotivator is the fear to fail and I understand Personal Mastery as a
state where one overcomes this fear. Rewards and threads stress the fear
to fail and therefore have a demotivational influence. For people who have
reached personal mastery rewards are just irrelevant.
If you feel punished by a the promise of a reward, it is part of your
mental model. You can utilise this feeling by realising, that there is
still demand to train the discipline of personal mastery.
When I have 3 pieces of chocolate I better eat them myself rather then
give 2 pieces one and 1 piece the other of my children. Isn't this silly?
Maybe rewards are not so bad as I thought before - as a training
instrument for personal mastery?
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