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100

What type of software does the author compare Motivation 3.0 to?

Free, open-source shareware

100
Who developed the "candle problem?"
Karl Duncker
100

What is the name of the company that has "FedEx" days?

Atlassian
100

What happened to people that received rewards for their efforts?

Their productivity gradually dropped

100

What is the name of the new "operating system" mindset the author wishes to modernize to?

Motivation 3.0

200

What was the rival encyclopedia to Wikipedia?

MSN (Microsoft Network) Encarta

200

What were the parents fined for picking up their children late during the study in Haifa, Isreal?

10 Israeli Shekels (or about 3 USD)
200

Which company that practiced the ideas of Motivation 3.0 merged with Amazon?

Zappos

200

What fuels Motivation 2.0 and 2.1?

Extrinsic reward, money, personal gain

200

What was Motivation 2.0 upgraded to through minor tweaks?

Motivation 2.1

300

What does working to master the clarinet on weekends not gurantee us?

Money or a partner

300
Did the paid (commissioned) or unpaid artists tend to have higher marks of creativity in the study conducted by Amabile?
The unpaid artists
300

Which Ford car model posed threat to the burnout of engineers working on it?

Ford Pinto

300

What are the two theories of mastery?

the entity theory and the incremental theory

300

What fuels Motivation 3.0?

Intrinsic motivation and autonomy

400

What did the word autotelic come from?

Greek word auto - "self"

Greek word telos - "goal or purpose"

400

What was the "effect" that studies often showed that caused the opposite of the wanted outcome?

The Sawyer Effect

400

What company was the first to go ROWE?

Best Buy

400

What does the author claim that our natural state or thinking process is?

Automatic, autotelic, able to experience at a digestible and engaging rate
400

What is flow and why is it important?

Flow is essential due to it being the equilibrium "goldilocks zone" of difficulty; it helps keep workers motivated.

500

Why is mastery an asymptote?

Mastery is something that can be reached towards but never truly achieved, but it is something that is continually reached towards in flow.

500

What happened to the people who had been instructed to not participate in anything that brought they enjoyment? Why?

After only two days, they started to have symptoms very similar to serious psychological stress and depression because the flow in their lives was destroyed.
500

Why did flow help Green Cargo prosper?

It led to employees being more invested in their work due to being challenged but not overworked

500

Who proposed the idea of autotelic thinking?

Csikszentmihalyi

500

Why does being rewarded for an initially enjoyable task diminish the person's future performance?

It ends up feeling similar to a tedious job