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"What is true is that mixing rewards with inherently interesting, creative, or noble tasks - deploying them without understanding the peculiar science of motivation - is a very dangerous game."
— Jul 04, 2026 08:02AM
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Carlos Favila
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Extrinsic rewards can promote bad behavior, create addiction, and encourage short-term thinking at the expense of the long view
— Jul 04, 2026 08:05AM
Carlos Favila
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Genuine motivation: automomy, mastery and purpose
— Jul 04, 2026 08:03AM
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Ine who is interested in developing and enhancing intrinsic motivation in children, students, etc., should not concentrate om external-control systems such as monetary rewards.
— May 26, 2026 11:04PM
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Reward can deliver a short-term boost - just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you craking for s few more hours. But the effect wears off- and , worse, can reduce a person's longer-term motivation to continue th ñe project.
— May 26, 2026 11:01PM
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The performance of the task provided intrinsic reward.
The joy of th task was its own reward.
— May 26, 2026 10:46PM
The joy of th task was its own reward.
