Better Thinking & Incentives: Lessons From Shakespeare
Unearth the wisdom of Shakespeare as it pertains to cognitive enhancement and motivation. Delve into the Bard's timeless works, extracting valuable lessons on better thinking and incentives, and discover how these insights can be applied in today's context.
The past is full of useful lessons that have much to teach us
Sometimes, we just need to remember what we’re looking for and why
- If we want to be a signal in the noise, we have to find other signals ourselves
- That’s why we spend a lot of time in the past.
Better Thinking and Education
“Doing and thinking are reciprocal practices.”
- One of the ways to think better is to complement thinking with doing.
- The time and space to do something with our thoughts is how we transform what we learn into something we know.
- Better thinking takes strength.
Applying Incentives
If you create an incentive to hit the target, it’s all the less likely you will do so
- We need incentives to explore what might need to be known to face future challenges and respond to future opportunities
- A common problem in many organizations is that opportunities to accrue further reward and compensation can only come by climbing ever higher in the pyramid
- Compensation is tied to visibility, physical presence, or volume of output and not to quality of contribution
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