Redundant jobs suck. And often times they are VERY necessary. A hello to anyone powerwashing a trailer, barn, or farrowing room! Process or vaccinate pigs! Set up a barn or farrowing room! Boring…. maybe not your first time, but how about you 100th. However, this is all very important work in making sure pigs stayContinue reading “But It’s Boring”
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Part III: What Gives You Drive?
Part three of the book Drive, talks about purpose. The motivating factor. The reason we spend the extra time, long nights, leave comfort, risk financial ruin or worse hurt your pride. Don’t we all yearn for making an impact and discovering a goal or purpose. I always think of the line from Grey’s Anatomy, “It’sContinue reading “Part III: What Gives You Drive?”
Part II: What Gives You Drive?
Mastery. Key number two in Daniel Pink’s book Drive. Mastery is a mindset. They found that people who believe that intelligence and capacity for learning is a muscle were much more successful than those who did not. Those who believed these characteristics were fixed, when coming across failure, thought they just couldn’t do it becauseContinue reading “Part II: What Gives You Drive?”
Part I: What gives you drive?
According to Daniel Pink in the book “Drive”, autonomy is a large part of the motivation package. They found research that this is a part of what motivates people in the United States and also in other countries. This remains consistent in different socioeconomic situation and different cultures. Autonomy in this book is not definedContinue reading “Part I: What gives you drive?”
The scale of I to X
In a scale of 1 to 10, what are you? Daniel H. Pink in the book “Drive” talks about two types of people. The Type X behavior and the Type I behavior. Type I behavior responds to intrinsic motivation rather than extrinsic motivation. My younger brother spent hours growing up learning all the stats fromContinue reading “The scale of I to X”
Pigs and People 