Lecture 5: Extrinsic motivation 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, goal-setting, feedback, and goal striving.

Readings

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

Images

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  Carrot and stick motivation
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  No help for Giusto Cerutti - Tour de France 1928.

Multimedia

This video discusses that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose. Two eye-opening experiments are discussed:

• What makes us feel good about our work? Dan Ariely (TEDx talk, 2013) (20 min; but start at 9:54)

The video argues against the conventional wisdom of making our goals public because, when we do so, we get a (false) satisfaction that undermines future effort:

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

Slides

• Lecture slides (Slideshare)
• 2016 handouts:
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See also

• Extrinsic motivation and psychological needs (Previous lecture)
• Mindsets, control, and self (Next lecture)
• Motivation, optimism, and self (Tutorial 03)

References

External links

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)