Re: HBR: Six Secrets to Creating a Culture of Innovation

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Aug 10, 2010; 11:17pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/HBR-Six-Secrets-to-Creating-a-Culture-of-Innovation-tp5410321p5410374.html

Kids who are encouraged to follow their passion develop better discipline, deeper knowledge, and are more persevering and more resilient in the face of setbacks.

Thinking out loud:  Is the contrasting case simply individuals with no intrinsic motivation?   They have no `discipline' because there is nothing they want to do.  On one hand I can imagine that that there are good survival characteristics to learning (early in life) to manage demands that are of little or no interest to them.  The children that can resist the cookie where `cookie' is not the sugary treat, but the thing they want to do.   On the other hand, maybe if you make it to adulthood with no real innate curiosity and drive, then you'll never develop it?

Marcus

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