Re:Ask HN: You've got one month, what's your challenge?
by brendoncrawford on Saturday November 05, 2016 @08:47PM
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When the incentive to finish a goal shifts from the innate satisfaction of completion to a fear of financial penalty, is it possible that the goal itself will unintentionally change in subtle ways?
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Re:Ask HN: You've got one month, what's your challenge?
by Akarnani on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:37PM
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its called the Token Economy Problem. tl:dr; using tokens as an external motivation mechanism transfers away from buidling internal motivation. (e.g.,$5 for each book a kid reads gets a kid to read books for $5 bills and not for love of reading/imagination/thinking. $5 tokens run out? Kid stops reading.)