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Amen, I have personally experience how much better I enjoy working on something when I don't necessarily need to worry about monetizing it. In my mind, my non-
by Killah911 13y ago
Amen, I have personally experience how much better I enjoy working on something when I don't necessarily need to worry about monetizing it. In my mind, my non-profit work is immensely more successful and rewarding because everyone involved are doing it because they just really want to.
It requires a very different way of thinking and looking at things. Money is a metric often used to measure success. Even in non-profits people start to get "metric driven", but I feel that somehow belittles my efforts.
Truth be told, money is work + luck. The only metric that I like to look at is, am I doing what I can. Random dehumanizing metrics be damned, you can't measure everything!
- cottonseed 13y ago> I feel that somehow belittles my efforts. It does. There's lot of psychology research on this, intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation, etc. Have a look at Alfie Kohn's books, like Punished by Rewards.
- Killah911 13y agoThanks. I recently read Drive, which was an eye opening book, especially when I can attest to the negative consequences of bonus based ruining of intrinsically motivated people.
- cottonseed 13y agoI tried to read Pink's A Whole New Mind, and it turned me off to him completely.