I'm going to start with another video, one a career counsellor pointed me to. It's about 11 minutes long, which exceeds most people's patience for these things, I know, but it features clever animation and a telling observation of how the Federal Reserve is a hotbed of leftist ideology. You can find it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
In an earlier version of this post, I somehow managed to create a Venn diagram of the video's three main motivators: mastery, autonomy and purpose. However, that pretty graphic has disappeared into the failed-to-blogosphere.
So imagine if you will a Venn diagram and read on.
I think more highly of these clever theories if I can find a practical link to my own experience.
I can think of lots of things that I'm pretty good at that have no purpose: playing Angry Birds for instance.
Purposeful things I'm good at but where I have little autonomy: that would be my day job.
Where there's a purpose, but little autonomy or mastery: yoga maybe.
And where the circles all intersect, what do I get to do that is all of purposeful, autonomous and masterful? I can think of three: sleeping, eating and cooking.
All you Canadians have a happy Thanksgiving!
And have a great week!
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