34. People Are Motivated By Progress, Mastery, and Control
Why do people donate their time and creative thought? People volunteer to write entries for Wikipedia. Or they program code for the open source movement. When you stop to think about it, you realize that people engage in many activities, even over a long period of time, which require high expertise and yet offer no monetary or even career-building benefit. People like to feel that they are making progress. They like to feel that they are learning and mastering new knowledge and skills.
Small Signs of Progress Can Have a Big Effect
Because mastery is such a powerful motivator, even small signs of progress can have a large effect in motivating people to move forward to the next step in ...
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