Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Motivation and goals

Lecture 5: Extrinsic motivations and goal-setting

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This is the fifth lecture for the Motivation and emotion unit of study.

Overview

This lecture discusses intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and goal-setting, feedback, and goal striving.

Readings

1. Chapter 05: Extrinsic motivation (Reeve, 2015)
2. Chapter 08: Goal setting and goal striving (Reeve, 2015)

Slides

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• 2015 handouts:
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See also

• Psychological needs and implicit motives (Previous lecture)
• Mindsets, control, and self (Next lecture)
• Goals and self (Tutorial 03)

External links

This video discusses that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose using two eye-opening experiments about attitudes and meaning in our work.

• What makes us feel good about our work? Dan Ariely (TEDx talk, 2013) (20 min)

The video argues against the conventional wisdom of making your goals public because when you do, you get a sense of (false) satisfaction:

• Keep your goals to yourself (Derek Sivers, TED talk, 2010) (3 min)

This video from a motivational guru argues for putting everything aside to achieve one goal in 24 hours:

• If you could achieve one goal in 24 hours (Brian Tracy) (2 min)