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If you reward them with something that's even greater than the experience of what they did. So let's say kids win a soccer game and they're ecstatic. They're jumping all over the place. They're super excited and you reward them with an even bigger experience, a celebration, you are actually inhibiting their ability to perform the same set of activities that led them to the win if, and I really want to underscore if you reward them every time.
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What they found is the children had a much lower tendency to draw on their own.
what they observed was you guessed it a drop in the total amount of time that the children elected to do this activity that initially they were doing quite a lot in other words their total satisfaction or desire or motivation to engage in this activity drop below what it was prior to ever receiving a reward
So they were children. So again the children were in intrinsically enjoyed playing with markers and then all of a sudden in one condition they would say okay now I want you to play with these markers and if you play with these markers I will give you a reward. A second condition they said surprise you just play with the markers but we're going to also give you a reward. And then the third condition there was no reward right? Um, and where you saw intrinsic intrinsic motivation go down is when the child knew before they got to play with the markers the second time that that they were going to get the reward.
As I recall, there was this famous set of experiments also done at Stanford where they had kids draw, kids intrinsic, excuse me, where kids drew intrinsically like drawing. They just observed which kids drew. who then they started rewarding those kids for drawing and then they observed at least as I recall the outcomes being that they they observed that some of these kids um drew less or gave up drawing because um the conclusion that was that these kids now were doing it for the the rewards as opposed to the activity itself.