What if this is the secret of how the law of attraction works? (If it works at all) Visualizing your reward makes you think about it more often therefore increasing your performance to achieve that goal?
So we give HUGE incentives to the people working in finance (the speculators at the Wallstreet Casino) and also the CEOs of large companies (they used to get 30 times the pay of the average wage in their company, now it is 300 times). ... so - as you would expect when you know human nature, watched the last Great Financial Crisis or the numerous fines that were dished out to big management (finance but also automotive).
Or if if you heard of that study (I did but I did not know the details).
.... you know why they mess up royally when they get paid too much.
The incentive "money" (greed as soon as the reward gives you more than the comfortable life) becomes the overwhelming and the strongest incentive.
It overpowers the more constructive and more socially valuable drivers and rewards. (like being a leader, the desire to create, to innovate, to leave a legacy, to shape things, some funny competition).
Many life coaches outline how the culture that is taught in colleges, in companies is that managers do not stay with a company longer than a few years. So they can behave like locusts eating everything and then they move on, leaving the wasted land behind. And often they do.
The candle problem results make perfect sense - the bigger the reward, the more your worker will spend their time thinking greedily and not imaginatively or productively. They only care about the money, and they miss the point of everything else. It's why they fail to grasp the solution when even the tiniest amount of creativity is required, because they don't think in any way that is useful to solving the problem. It's all in the heart that dictates how far you know - all you need to do is follow it. Think not of what you stand to gain, but how you can make and give to others as if you were not being rewarded at all. How do you solve a problem? You make it interesting and personal. How do you make it interesting and personal? You do it for interesting and personal reasons. And the world will be all the better for it which is what my life coach taught me.
I suggest he reads some Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. This work exposes very well that humans are not purely financially motivated, and cannot be easily reduced to utility and goal seeking functions. 'We seek to be lovely and loved' too. Sadly, the caricature of free markets and the U.S. he seems to have as a frame of reference is all too common among the self-anointed, pseudo-intellectual elitists that preen themselves about today's free markets. Also cracking on the U.S. for not being 'philosophical' - what on earth is he talking about?
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