What Motivates People: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose

I learned this great insight from this Youtube video:

RSA Animate: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

These motives:

• Autonomy, 
• Mastery, 
• Purpose.

are what truly make us human. 

Steve Jobs

"Lots of companies have tons of great engineers and smart
people," Jobs told Businessweek in 2004. "But ultimately, there
needs to be some gravitational force that pulls it all
together. Otherwise, you can get great pieces of technology all
floating around the universe."                                                           

"The quintessential differentiator between Steve Jobs and
everyone else is the sheer tenacity and commitment to perfection
-- the willingness to move mountains to get the right thing,"
said Gadi Amit, founder of NewDealDesign, an industrial design
firm in San Francisco.

Hear, See, and Do

When you hear something, you forget it.
When you see something, you remember it.
But not until you do something will you understand it. 

Pecking Order of Academics

1. Psychologist wants to be social scientist. 
2. Social scientist wants to be economist. 
3. Economist wants to be chemist.
4. Chemist wants to be physicist.
5. Physicist wants to be mathematician. 
6. Mathematician wants to be God.