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Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz
In my 3 decades of selling software I've seen a handful of players who, when they started beating the game, actually quit betting horses.
Note that I did not say that they quit GAMBLING.
Only that they stopped betting horses.
Never understood this until I watched this video a few months back.
Seems that when you get paid for something, it takes the fun out of it.
BTW, this has NOTHING to do with anger.
No idea where that came from.
NEUROSCIENTIST: You will NEVER LACK Motivation Again |
The problem with these "scientists" is that they can find enough proof to support BOTH sides of a given argument. For instance...this man here says that a future "reward" that we promise ourselves after completing a difficult task actually takes away our enjoyment for the task because the emphasis is placed upon the reward, and not the task. But I just finished a book by another noted psychologist (Brett Steenbarger)...and he endorses "future rewards", because they provide the necessary "motivation" for completing the difficult task.
Steenbarger even states a case where, in order to "motivate" himself to lose weight...he bought himself an expensive wardrobe of smaller-sized clothes, figuring that there would then be an added incentive to lose the weight...since he didn't want the expensive new clothes to go to waste. It's hard to know whom to believe when sound arguments can be made for both sides of a given issue.
