Reaching Better Works

     The article: "What Motivates Us To Do Great Work", written by Jocelyn K. Gley talks about  the fact that the society and  is driven more by knowledge than by money, what motivate the individuals to do a great work is not rewards, recognition, money and stability anymore.Traditional rewards are not enough.The article reveals that what makes people creative to do a great work, is themselves, especially when they have an intrinsic motivation: wich is developed by external stimuls that make people progress toward the goals, and their understanding that they are gaining new skills and knowledge.Also, based on the science writer Jonah Lehrer study about `self-talk`, external stimulations play an important role when we are talking about great works: he analyzed that in some situations people presented a better work result when they previously knew what they were going to do, and spent more time thinking about it. This research could show that the key to reach a better work is made by challenge - external challenges that challenge people and motivate than to think more, work better, and deal with their intrisic motivation. As Jonah Lehrer said: "  By interrogating ourselves, we set up a well-defined challenge that we can master. And it is this desire for personal fulfillment - being able to tell ourselves that we solved the anagrams - that actually motivates us to keep on trying.” Another study made by the author Daniel Pink, reveals there are three key motivators: autonomy, mastery and purpose.Although this article presents many other studies about what motivates people to do a great work, all them had a result point in commom - the progress. The idea of progress and developing is what encourage more people to work more and build creative thoughts. This is the real challenge for them.
 If the idea of progress work with many people when we are talking about motivation to great works, we could think about bonuses and monetary rewards as a measurement of progress. The article assures that some sorts of reward, as bonus money, doesn't estimulate people to do a great work. But the fact is that, some kinds of rewards that we already have spread around the companies and around the world, could motivate the intrisic thoughts, if only the idea of progress were necessary.Based on your performance, and the secure in knowing you improved; there's a link between the pleasure in receiving reward and the satisfaction of knowing you made progress.We already have some examples in our society that work with the idea of progress, and they don't work very often. What, in most cases, ,motivate people to work better, in my opinion, is doing what they like, and wanting to do. When a person like and want, it;s almost impossible for him to don't achieve his goals. It works the same in school. If it was a class on a topic that interested you - you probably did quite well. You probably couldn't wait to get there each day, sat at the front of the class, doing everything you could and you were as engaged as you possible could be. The same is true for job. If you love the environment and culture of where you work- and what you do, then you will be closer to give your best, reach your goals and your employers goals, and, in the end, consequently, you will have the progress.