The Secret of What Motivates Us

Recently, at work, this video went around and I thought it was very interesting. They found three secrets of what motivate people and they were not what you might expect. They are:

1) Autonomy
2) Mastery
3) Purpose.

Autonomy is the desire to be self directed. Mastery is the urge to get better at stuff. Purpose is the need to know where you are going. This author wrote a book called Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. These are the results of very interesting studies:



It may not appear to fit in with the seven structure initially but I would argue that it does fit in with a partial structure. Specifically 1, 2 and 3 for self and 5, 6 and 7 when leading others. This may not be clear to you even after watching this so feel free to ignore that.