Motivation

Here is an interesting video on motivation. The three keys to motivating people are, according to the video 1)autonomy 2)mastery 3) purpose, and not monetary rewards. I think that this argument should be used in union negotiations, especially with the teachers' union, which regularly threatens to go on strike here in Vancouver.

On a more serious note, I believe that these three elements are important motivators, especially when it comes to language learning.

Comments

[Chrissarda]

You should probably put up the link :)

[Steve Kaufmann]

Sorry, it should be there now.

[Andrew_the_Odd]

Yup, there was an interesting TED talk that said something very similar, are you familiar with it? The main thing I took away from it was that increasing monetary rewards absolutely do not correlate with increasing performance.

Cheers,
Andrew

[ed]

I think it is incorrect to draw conclusions about language learning from this experiment. Doing a single short term task is quite different than having a job or learning a language.