About money as a "motivator," I was reminded of an interview with Mark
McGuire (sp), a professional baseball player for the Oakland A's, who said
something like "these big amounts of money have taken the fun out of the
game." MOney is important in our "modern" societies, but it still a lousy
motivator (if at all!). MOney is needed to provide for the basic needs, but
we can not get people direct their intentions toward a particular task
with money only. For how long any of you in this list would be doing what
you are doing today if your job itself was not giving you some kind of strong
internal satisfaction? Some kind of high? As a university professor one
makes little money. The funny thing is that to get where I am today, I passed
up on better (more money) opportunities!
--"Dr. Ivan Blanco" <BLANCO@BU4090.BARRY.EDU>
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