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This, I made a note at the time, is what distinguishes work from school. Curious minds were not what Massey was after. Massey was looking for cult followers.

More than thirty years ago, a little-known Harvard PhD named Dan McAdams designed a process of interviewing people about their lives as a way to understand how they developed and refined their sense of self.

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The primacy of language as a cue helps us understand why language policies can change behavior.

“Deliberate practice”: K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Romer, “The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance,” Psychological Review 100, no. 3 (1993): 363–406, ht​tps:/​/grap​hics8​.nyti​mes.c​om/im​ages/​blogs​/frea​konom​ics/p​df/De​liber​atePr​act​ice(PsychologicalReview).pdf/.

Theodore Chandler, a professor at Kent State, put parents and children together on two tasks: building block designs and building a rocket. He noted that parents of Internals offered comments that were “suggestions and explanations in contrast to orders or directions and…positive, not negative.”7

he’d play to his strength of listening and helping people apply their learning from the activity to everyday management challenges.

It’s easy to understand why institutions want to reduce motivation to a simple one-dimensional scale or a small set of universal motives. It makes life much easier for the authorities because in a standardized system individuality is a problem.

was a young chess master named Maurice Ashley.