Companies, However Unintentionally, Choke The Motivation Out

The Idea That You Will Make The Right Decision Every Time Is Very Unlikely.

We Usually Think Of Ourselves As Sitting The Driver's Seat, With Ultimate Control Over The Decisions We Made And The Direction Our Life Takes; But, Alas, This Perception Has More To Do With Our Desires-with How We Want To View Ourselves, Than With Reality.

Money Is Very Difficult To Think About. So, We Think About Money As The Opportunity Cost Of Money. So, We At Some Point Went To A Toyota Dealership And We Asked People, What Will You Not Be Able To Do In The Future If You Bought This Toyota? Now, You Would Expect People To Have An Answer. But People Were Kind Of Shocked By The Question. They Never Thought About It Before. So, The Most We Got Was People Said, "well, If I Can't Buy This Toyota, If I Buy This Toyota, I Can't Buy A Honda." What Is This Thing? What Is This Value Of Price? Very Hard To Think About It.

Kids Don't Care What Party They Have, Right? They Want Cake And They Want To Run Around. Nothing Else Matters. But In This Escalation, All The Kids Want Parties Like Their Friends. So, If All The Friends Have An Amazing, Expensive Party, They All Want The Same Thing. If We All Got To Scale Down As A Coordinated Effort, All The Kids Would Have Been Just As Happy.

I Think We Could Get People To Both Be More Productive And Happier. We're Less Productive As Individuals. We're Less Productive As Companies, And We're More Miserable.