The Three Secrets Of Reward
These three things:
Autonomy
Complexity
and Connection between Effort and Reward.
Are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying!
It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five.
It’s whether our work fulfills us!
If I offered you a choice between being an architect for $75,000 a year and working in a tollbooth everyday for the rest of your life for $100,000 a year, which would you take?
I’m guessing the former, because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward doing creative work, and thats worth more to most of us than money!
Work that fulfills those three criteria is “meaningful”
Being a teacher is meaningful.
Being a physician is meaningful.
So is being and entrepreneur.
When you come home after seeing your project come to life, you dance a jig!
You haven’t sold anything yet, you may still be penniless and desperate, and know that to make something of your idea is going to require years of backbreaking labor!
But your ecstatic!
Because the prospect of those endless years of hard labor doesn’t seem like a burden to you!
Just as Bill Gates had the same feeling when he sat down in front of his first keyboard!
And the Beatles didn’t recoil in horror when they were told they had to play eight hours a night, seven days a week.
They jumped at the chance!
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning!
If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires!
Hi Duane,
What we do as a job does affact a lot of our mental well-being. The MENTAL state we have while we perform our daily duties determines a lot more than the actual works we do.
It’s kind of “mind over matter” in metaphysics sense, I suppose.
John Ho
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I’ve done both satisfying and unsatisfying work, and you are absolutely correct in that it would be much more fulfilling to work for less pay in something you love than to be slowly driven insane with high paid work you hate.
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I would rather have less money doing what satisfies or turns me on than become an automaton.
Anthony
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Duane,
Thanks for the reminder that I need the things in my life that you write about today.
I plan to “shape the world to my desires!”
Lynn Lane
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