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Finding Motivation: Autonomy in [Home] School and [House] Work
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Finding Motivation: Autonomy in [Home] School and [House] Work

This series was inspired by my reading of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink. What is Autonomy? autonomy, (aw-ton-uh-mee)n. Drive summarizes autonomy as it relates to motivation this way: People need autonomy over task (what they do), time (when they do it), team (who they do it with), and technique…

How Not to Motivate: Extrinsic Rewards
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How Not to Motivate: Extrinsic Rewards

As I reviewed on Friday, In Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink argues that motivation and satisfaction center on having these three operators in our lives: It turns out that even science is now demonstrating that people are not purely economically motivated, yet as Pink puts it, “there’s a gap between…

Making a Convivial Home: Unrelenting Fellowship
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Making a Convivial Home: Unrelenting Fellowship

I mentioned previously that the Wilsons’ advice helped us get our marriage off to a strong start. The biggest and best piece of advice they gave was to never leave one another while out of fellowship. That isn’t that you can’t leave until you agree, but you can’t leave while you have unconfessed and unforgiven…