Table of Contents

 

Key Takeaways

  1. Intrinsic Motivational Stack
  1. Massively Transformative Purpose
  1. Flow Is the Source Code of Intrinsic Motivation
  1. Mechanics of Clear Goals
  1. Intrinsic Motivation as a Self Perpetuating Feedback Loop
  1. Goal Stacking Tool: https://timestripe.com/horizon/
 

Exercise

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Scoping Your Vision of Dangerous

The alchemy of passion into purpose through massively transformative purpose creation
  1. Write down 15 massive global challenges (hunger, energy scarcity, biodiversity, cancer prevention).
  1. Be hyper-specific: Protecting biodiversity —> Establishing Mega Linkages To Protect Biodiversity
  1. Tie these specific, global challenges to your passion
  1. Use this to craft your Massively Transformative Purpose (has to be 1 sentence)
Your notes

Glossary

The What of Motivation: Your General Willingness To Do Something. The Set Of Psychological Forces That Compel You To Take Action.
Intrinsic Motivation: Doing An Activity Simply For The Enjoyment Of The Activity Itself, Rather Than Its Instrumental Value.
Extrinsic Motivation: Doing An Activity In Order To Attain Some Separable Outcome
Autotelic Personality: â—Ź Curiosity â—Ź Persistence â—Ź Low Self-Centeredness â—Ź High In Autonomy/Independence â—Ź High in Collaborative/Cooperative Tendencies
Overjustification Effect: When Extrinsic Motivators Dampen Intrinsic Motivation.
Active Engagement: “The Unrelated Goals Of The Separate Flow Activities Merge Into An All-Encompassing Set Of Challenges That Gives Purpose To Everything A Person Does. When Somebody’s Life Is Rich In Vital Engagement Their Entire Existence Can Become Like A Unified Flow Experience.”- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Lesson Resources

  1. Strategic intelligence By World Economic Forum
  1. 28 measures of locus of control By Rita Halpert and Russ Hill
  1. Development of a scale to measure lifelong learning By John R. Kirby
  1. The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people By Todd B.Kashdan
  1. The meaning in life questionnaire: assessing the presence of and search for meaning in life By Michael Steger
  1. Motivation: the situational motivation scale (sims) By Frédéric Guay
  1. The overjustification effect By The Decision Lab
  1. Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward By Mark R. Lepper and David Greene
  1. Conditioned reinforcement and response strength By Timothy A. Shahan
  1. Autotelic personality through a five-factor lens: Individual differences in flow-propensity By Scott R.Rossa & Heidi N.Keiser
  1. Flow: the psychology of optimal experience By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  1. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: the search for optimal motivation and performance - edited by Carol Sansone, Judith M. Harackiewicz
 
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