The key issue about intrinsic and extrinsic is that intrinsic comes from
the task itself, while the extrinsive comes through someone else
It is the transferral of focus from the task to that someone else that is
the problem. Sometimes it is quite valid (an academic gets rewards partly
through his/her colleagues) and sometimes it is very inhibiting (when the
person judging doesn't really understand or appreciate what you are
doing.)
Yours
Gray Southon
At 10:04 AM 10/7/97 +0100, Winfried Dressler wrote:
>
>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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