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Loving What You Do: 
Intrinsic Motivation 
David D. Nowell, Ph.D. 
www.DrNowell.com
…a challenge
Overview 
• Your brain’s reward-and-planning 
system 
• Asking 2 questions 
• The “Rule of Thirds” 
•Q&A&D 
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YOUR BRAIN’S REWARD-AND-PLANNING 
SYSTEM
Image: wikimedia commons
Cortico-striatal loop
The reward-and-planning system
What does dopamine feeeel like?
Peak experiences 
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ASKING 2 QUESTIONS
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Am I having fun now? 
Is this important?
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Determining what I’m here to “do, 
be, and have” 
We are shaped by: 
• Peer interactions 
• Supportive adults 
• Family / culture / faith 
• Media and marketing 
• Counseling 
Ongoing clarity comes with: 
• Morning 10-minute 
review 
• Weekly planning 
session 
• Ongoing review of 
successes and 
frustrations 
• Intensives – annual 
mini-retreats
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Framingham Heart Study 
“…happiness, like health, 
is a collective 
phenomenon.”
Yes 
Yes 
No 
Yes 
Yes 
No 
No 
No 
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Am I having fun now? 
Is this important? 
x
Yes 
Yes 
No 
Yes 
Yes 
No 
No 
No 
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Am I having fun now? 
Is this important?
Yes 
Yes 
No 
Yes 
Yes 
No 
No 
No 
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Am I having fun now? 
Is this important?
Beware dopamine tricksters! 
• Facebook 
• Gambling 
• Shopping 
• Video games 
• Free online Aramaic course
Time spent online (off-task) 
• 31% waste roughly 30 minutes daily 
• 31% waste roughly 1 hour daily 
• 16% waste roughly 2 hours daily 
• 6% waste roughly 3 hours daily 
• 2% waste roughly 4 hours daily 
• 2% waste 5 or more hours daily
Determine in Advance When 
You’ll Check Email and Facebook 
Tomorrow
The best defense against the 
manipulation of our attention is 
to determine for ourselves – in 
advance - how we want to 
invest it. 
- E. Goldberg
• 2 pages per day 
• Master to-do list 
• With you at all times
Yoga / read 
Phone calls 
Staff meeting 
Planning 
session 
billing
What’s a To-Do list for anyway?
Learn French 
Be a better spouse 
Stop smoking
Weekly Overview
10-Minute Morning Review
Where will I most likely feel 
distracted today?
What will you do today that you'll 
still remember one year from now??
Yes 
Yes 
No 
Yes 
Yes 
No 
No 
No 
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Am I having fun now? 
Is this important?
Increase salience
Use extrinsic reward 
creatively 
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If It’s Harder than a “3” Find Some 
Way to Make It Easier 
easy hard 
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Assign separate due dates for 
smaller parts of big projects
Barter Social/Practical Support 
• Food prep for optimal nutrition 
• Domestic organization 
• Pre-tax paperwork
Emphasize the sensory details of 
your desired outcome
Yes 
Yes 
No 
Yes 
Yes 
No 
No 
No 
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Am I having fun now? 
Is this important?
THE “RULE OF THIRDS”
…a challenge
Q&A&D 
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Mrc loving what you do 2014

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. Neuroanatomy Neurotransmitters Phenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
  2. Neuroanatomy Neurotransmitters Phenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
  3. Neuroanatomy Neurotransmitters Phenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
  4. Neuroanatomy Neurotransmitters Phenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
  5. Neuroanatomy Neurotransmitters Phenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
  6. Clarifying the 1st question Why is it important that our clients are engaged in commitments and obligations and relationships which are fun?
  7. Clarifying the 2nd question
  8. St’s going to happen today at 5:00 You’ll never get that time back
  9. Clarifying the 1st question Why is it important that our clients are engaged in commitments and obligations and relationships which are fun?
  10. 1948 – 3rd generation now -- Abstract Objectives To evaluate whether happiness can spread from person to person and whether niches of happiness form within social networks. Design Longitudinal social network analysis. Setting Framingham Heart Study social network. Participants 4739 individuals followed from 1983 to 2003. Main outcome measures Happiness measured with validated four item scale; broad array of attributes of social networks and diverse social ties. Results Clusters of happy and unhappy people are visible in the network, and the relationship between people’s happiness extends up to three degrees of separation (for example, to the friends of one’s friends’ friends). People who are surrounded by many happy people and those who are central in the network are more likely to become happy in the future. Longitudinal statistical models suggest that clusters of happiness result from the spread of happiness and not just a tendency for people to associate with similar individuals. A friend who lives within a mile (about 1.6 km) and who becomes happy increases the probability that a person is happy by 25% (95% confidence interval 1% to 57%). Similar effects are seen in coresident spouses (8%, 0.2% to 16%), siblings who live within a mile (14%, 1% to 28%), and next door neighbours (34%, 7% to 70%). Effects are not seen between coworkers. The effect decays with time and with geographical separation. Conclusions People’s happiness depends on the happiness of others with whom they are connected. This provides further justification for seeing happiness, like health, as a collective phenomenon.
  11. Small group: id activities in each of 4 quadrants
  12. Google calendar w/ text f/u Supportive check-ins
  13. The technology and the px
  14. Body double Harder than a 3/10? Increase saliency: stimulant rx, “nothing tastes as good as thin feels” – brain cant tell the difference b/t real and imagined….but real is vivider, pairing dull/difficult tasks w/ intrinsic reward (e.g cape, med student)
  15. EXPLAIN WKSHOP’S PURPOSE, INCREASE SALIENCE, RELATE TO PRIOR K’LEDGE
  16. STUDY BOX
  17. Getting to the gym – esp after full day’s work – is harder than a 3 / 10.
  18. Can’t decide whether it’s important? Watch tv vs study french: make it vivid
  19. Neuroanatomy Neurotransmitters Phenomenology of dopamine and serotonin
  20. Delete 30 FB friends Delete 3 “friends” Delete 2 commitments or obligations which arent fun or important (trauma survivor at txgiving; west boylston hxical society; I decided to stop eating foods that make me feel bad)