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In his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink describes the differences this way: “Rewards can deliver a short-term boost—just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off—and, worse, can reduce a person’s longer-term motivation to continue the project.”

Lifelong Kindergarten

Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson

The problem with all these methods of making a skill easier is that they rely on the assumption that the perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes during the execution of a sports skill interact in a manner consistent with a linear system. Such systems have the key feature of superimposition.

Learning to Be an “Ecological” Coach

Rob Gray

The Dilbert Principle: that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to middle management to limit the damage they can do.

The Gervais Principle

Venkatesh Rao

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