A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2011)

Re:A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2... by vlokshin on Saturday August 15, 2015 @12:32PM (#10065828)

Thank you.

The piece is a bit too long to keep the attention of most, but it's one of the most important things someone can and should understand about themselves: how they get things done, how they make decisions to get things done.

I wish this is how the brains behind Asana, Wunderlist, Calendars, etc really thought about the end-user-human.

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Re:A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2... by jjoonathan on Saturday August 15, 2015 @02:05PM (#10066186)

If only I could motivate myself to read the lengthy article about motivation maybe I could understand how to better motivate myself in other aspects of my life. But it really is a long article and I have other things to do, so... chicken, meet egg. Egg, meet chicken.

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Re:A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2... by DenisM on Saturday August 15, 2015 @02:54PM (#10066389)

Undivided attention is a skill, and it can be developed.

Make it a habit to read literature, something you actually enjoy, for an hour at a time, each day. In six weeks you will have trained yourself to stay focused for extended periods of time.

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Re:A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2... by DanBC on Saturday August 15, 2015 @02:06PM (#10066199)

Here's an article about procrastination which is so long many people put off reading it until they have more motivation and time.

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/procrastination/

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Re:A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2... by rndn on Saturday August 15, 2015 @02:17PM (#10066245)

I like the thought that Wikipedia the result of massive collaborative procrastination.

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Re:A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2... by tdaltonc on Saturday August 15, 2015 @06:10PM (#10067139)

My startup[0] is building a tool kit for to make it easy for developers to build apps that work with what really motivates users.

[0] www.useDopamine.com

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