Imagine that last week you won the Megabucks lottery last week ($319 million). What would you be motivated to do if money was never going to be a concern? What goals would you work toward? What would drive you? How would you live your life differently?
If I won the lottery, the first thing I would do is change my college path. As of right now I am narrowing down my college choice based strictly on finances. If there were no more financial concerns that would be the first thing to change. That aside, I think with all of this money so easily at my finger tips I might lose some of my intrinsic drive. If I had every material item I ever wanted and the extrinsic motivation was therefore gone, would I still have as much intrinsic motivation and push myself as hard as I do now? I don't know. It's hard to say. I would like to answer by saying of course I would still be as driven and as motivated to achieve success but I do feel that realistically some motivation would disappear because there would be fewer goals. Every motivation I feel would have to be driven 100% intrinsically. I think that would make motivating myself even harder than it is now because I can admit that now I have difficulty motivating myself occasionally and i have extrinsic motivation. Working hard without it would definitely take more effort.
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