12/27 Notes

• Measuring curiousity intrinsic motivator:

  How many times in the last 30 days did you have a desire to consume content related to the topic
• Increasing curiousity intrinsic motivation:

  Learn things that you can immediately see have a direct effect on your work (quick positive feedback loop)
• Measuring mastery intrinsic motivation:

  In the last 30 days, how motivated have you been to endlessly improve at the skillset required for your work?
• Increasing mastery intrinsic motivation:

  Identify all skills and sub-skills that make up being a master at your line of work.

  Deliberately practice them until they’re instinctual
• Measuring autotelicity intrinsic motivation:

  In the last 30 days, how often did you dive into one of your core work activities without external obligation?

  How often did you crave to do one of your core work activities?
• Increasing autotelicity intrinsic motivation:

  Change the language around your attitude toward the task and your beliefs will follow (ex: “This is fun, I would do this all day” instead of “This sucks, I’m only doing this because it’s necessary”)
• Measuring purpose intrinsic motivation:

  Does the organization I work for or the work I do have an obvious purpose?

  Is that a purpose I can get behind and feel good pouring my energy into? (does it align with your life mission)
• Increasing purpose intrinsic motivation:

  Distill your life mission into a short phrase. Then link every work task to it
• Measuring autonomy intrinsic motivation:

  In the last 30 days, how often was the how, what, why, and when related to your work in your control?
• Increasing autonomy intrinsic motivation:

  Either set up your work situation to where you have control over the when, where, why and how of your work

  Or reframe your current work situation as you choosing to do this as part of your broader plan