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Try to encourage a kid to learn math by paying her for each workbook page she completes—and she’ll almost certainly become more diligent in the short term and lose interest in math in the long term. Take an industrial designer who loves his work and try to get him to do better by making his pay contingent on a hit product—and he’ll almost certainly work like a maniac in the short term, but become less interested in his job in the long term. As one leading behavioral science textbook puts it, “People use rewards expecting to gain the benefit of increasing another person’s motivation and behavior, but in so doing, they often incur the unintentional and hidden cost of undermining that person’s intrinsic motivation toward the activity.”
Second-rate teachers, a second-rate elite: the meritocracy can never be better than its teachers.
The Rise of the Meritocracy
Michael Young
SHALLOWING HYPOTHESIS
Social media is making us dumb. We spend so long staring at shallow information on our screens that we don’t spend much time reflecting on ourselves or the world. The result is that our brains become optimized to do little but read tweets and watch clips.
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