Predictably Irrational - basic human motivations: Dan Ariely at TEDxMidwest
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfcro5iM5vw&t=377s
- People think: we all just want to relax on a beach drinking a cool drink
- AKA the human's are lazy mentality
- Humans will avoid work as much as possible
- AKA the human's are lazy mentality
- This doesn't really line up with how people work.
- Why do people climb mountains and do hard things?
- Because they are enjoying them at the time?
- Nope, they are cold and miserable and don't even get a nice view because it's too cloudy
- Why do people climb mountains and do hard things?
- What motivates humans?
- The canceled project
- A project that wasn't ever going to go to customers
- Functionally OK:
- They had done a good job
- They were going to probably get a raise
- Boss was happy with their work
- Emotionally wrecked
- The least motivated team
- Building Bionicle's
- They paid people to built bionicles for lower and lower pay to see when the pay wasn't enough to build more.
- "the motivated"
- Their work would go to live on under the table, they wouldn't see it destroyed
- They quit at 11
- There was differences between those that loved legos and those that didn't
- "The sysphus"
- They would see their work destroyed before their eyes
- After they were done with the 2nd one they would be handed back the 1st one
- They quit at 7
- There was no difference between those that liked legos and those that didn't
- They sucked all the enjoyment out of building legos for everyone
- Paperwork experiment
- Takeaway: we want people to care about our work
- 3 categories
- Smile at your work
- Ignore your work
- Actually almost as bad as shred your work
- Shred your work