The Secret Of Motivation

if I mentioned to you something called it Carla never heard of Encarta okay Microsoft started a project they put millions of dollars into dreaming about that called an era okay and Carter was willing to be an online encyclopedia it was going to be better than the world better than cyclopædia pretend it's gonna just be up-to-date constantly updated by the best experts and they hired the best estimates and they had project managers and they had deadlines and they had huge endless Bill Gates deep pockets funding to make this project work and then this little upstart him all called Wikipedia and they weren't paying anyone had done there was no money on the table there were no professionals and if you would have asked any expert in the world what's gonna happen in Carta or Wikipedia that's a joke and card is the juggernaut and it's gonna eat Wikipedia a lot gotta get it deep we could be like wait maybe this is gonna be it's like it's like good and fighting an elephant it's irrelevant and yet and Carta the project was cancelled it was a huge loss I mean I'm sure Microsoft can take the hit I'm sort of the loss but it was a huge loss of a huge value and Wikipedia today is one of the most visited sites on the entire internet in karna had incentives in Kannada had all of the experts being paid top dollar to do what they do when the pedia had none of that what did Wikipedia have the people were personally invested they cared about the project somebody who cares about the project refines the work in critically valuable you can't compare that level of productivity to somebody who's being bribed to do it because let's be frank when you have to incentivize work you're admitting that the work is not intrinsically valuable otherwise you come in and do it for free you'd be doing it on your spare time like Wikipedia editors with a passion for it this is the secret motivation do you have to or do you get to there those are the two phrases do you have to or do you get to you get to be part of this you get to live this type of meaning we teach our children and if we weren't taught as children then we teach ourselves that when it comes to serving a Shem you don't have to you get to you