It’s one thing if you like to win. Everybody likes to win. It’s a totally different thing when you like to compete. Most people don’t like to compete. Instead, they would just rather win. Most people prefer the easy win over an unworthy competitor vs. the tough loss against a worthy competitor. Competitors are the […]
There is a great quote in one of my favorite books, Flow in Sports, that provides the perfect illustration of a common mindset mistake people make when they fail to enjoy the process when pursuing a difficult goal. It’s not that we fail to stop and smell the roses. Often we even fail to notice […]
Motivating children with short-term rewards is unquestionably the easiest way to get a child to do something immediately. However, motivating children this way has two big problems that make the immediate results not worth it. Psychology professor Dr. Edward Deci, the world’s leading researcher on goals and motivation, explains these two problems in his classic […]