First, the originals are often slow. Oddly enough, but the people who are susceptible to procrastination in moderation, often evaluated as more creative than those who immediately take up the job. The secret lies in the fact that when a person postpones the task, then it is possible to come up with more fresh, innovative ideas. This happens under the condition that thoughts about the task are in the background of our mind during procrastination. Other words procrastination is not a problem, but an opportunity to improve those things which you are working, because it gives more time for reflection.
Secondly, the originals are full of doubt. But they do not doubt themselves. Such doubts are dangerous, they stop us and do not give to move on. They doubt the idea. Such doubts are useful because it motivates to improve the idea, to find new solutions. And be the first - is not always be successful. We can remember many examples when the pioneers were not as successful as those, who hesitated and did something better. So to do something better on the basis of the existing easier, than creating from scratch.
The third the originals have a lot of bad ideas. This means that they do many attempts before reaching a good result. They do not stop if that fails. In rare cases, something is achieved immediately, without a lot of attempts. But this is more the exception, than the rule. Many brilliant people created their masterpieces only after many unsuccessful attempts. It is important not to think about failure like “I’m a crap”, you have to think that you just have not yet achieved the result.
That means that originals - just not what we often consider them to be. They are susceptible to procrastination, doubt, make mistakes. And if you notice these qualities in others or yourself, do not write off others or yourself off. Thanks to qualities people create worthwhile things and make our world better.
Hidden factors of motivation
Often we see the labor market in such a way, that people work and get a financial rewards. They work for the money and this is the only incentive motivating then to do their job. But this vision of the situation is superficial. After all, there are many examples, when people overcome obstacles, sometimes quite difficult, reach the top and do it again and again. But what is the reason for this strange at first glance behavior?
Through research the main reason was found - this is the sense. If the sense fills certain activities and a person sees this that sense, he achieves results, no matter what. This provides an incentive for people to understand what they are doing something important for themselves or for someone else. The sense can take a variety of images - the preparation of the presentation for members of the Board of Directors, which will affect the merger of the companies, the preparation of a new product for the company, which will bring profit and promote the company to a new level, or even just getting pleasure from the work. But in any case, sense should be. Otherwise, the employee does not want to engage in certain work or he will not perform it efficiently, as he sees this work meaningless, without carrying any importance. This situation is called by the author of the lecture - Sisyphean condition. Unfortunately, employers often don’t pay enough attention to this, allowing ignoring or even destruction of the importance the efforts of employees.
The second equally important reason, which allows a person to love what he does - it is the attachment to the subject of his activity. This refers to that if a person invests in a project his own efforts, time, he automatically starts evaluating the project considerably higher, than those people to whom the project has no relation. And the more person working on it, the more his attachment. And person appreciates his job, not because he might do it at a high level, namely, because it was his personal contribution.
Therefore, the financial incentive for employees is not enough. To this it is necessary to add the importance of work, overcoming difficulties, pride of work, attachment to it. Only thanks to the complex of incentives employees will carry out their work with high quality and with pleasure.
Business as solution of global social problems
In today's world there are so many social problems: lack of food, lack of water, massive deforestation, poor quality of food, pollution and so on. But modern times characterized by the fact that at the moment we are all aware of these problems. Around the world, a lot of non-profit organizations were created to address these issues. But thanks to these organizations such social problems are often solved locally and continue to scale. Their scale continues to be threatening and frightening. The only problem is that the solution to all social problems is an entirety lack of resources, virtually saying there is no money to handle the challenge.
But how to make the fight against social challenges really effective? Most of the resources are created by a business. Business make profits due to the fact, that it creates goods and services, which meet the needs of customers. But how to connect to these resources? We follow along the way, that we need to take more and more money from the business, to require being more responsible. But this way leads nowhere.
We are all accustomed to the reality of a common sense, which consists in the fact, that the favorable external environment is not profitable for business, business makes a profit because creates social problems. But if we delve into this issue, then we can conclude that in fact the opposite is true: the business profits due to the solution of social problems, however paradoxical it sounds. There is no a compromise between social progress and economic efficiency. Business is not really beneficial to have adverse working conditions, accidents at work and so on. This all leads to significant costs. Conversely improving the current situation increases the profit. Thus we can say that this creates a new kind of capitalism, which creates both social and economic values.
