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To Summarize, Using Money To Motivate People Can Be A Double-edged Sword. For Tasks That Require Cognitive Ability, Low To Moderate Performance-based Incentives Can Help. But When The Incentive Level Is Very High, It Can Command Too Much Attention And Thereby Distract The Person’s Mind With Thoughts About The Reward. This Can Create Stress And Ultimately Reduce The Level Of Performance.

The Things That Motivate Us Are To Help Other People, To Feel That We're Useful, To Feel That We're Getting Better, To Feel That We Are Kind Of Living To Our Potential, To Get A Sense Of Meaning. All Of Those Things Are Positive.

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.

Do You Know How Much Money You Would Save If You Changed Your Light Bulb To Compact Florescent Light Bubs? How Much Would You Save If You Decreased Your Temperature Of Your House In The Winter By One Degree, Or Increase It By One Degree? We Just Don't Know These Numbers, But I Think Displays Could Make It A Memorable Change In Terms Of Attention, And Also Help Us Translate It In Terms Of Concrete Ways On What You Can Get.

But Because Human Being Tend To Focus On Short-term Benefits And Our Own Immediate Needs, Such Tragedies Of The Commons Occur Frequently .