JC opens with friendly greetings, reassurance, and a repeated affirmation of worth and capability to establish a supportive space. This orients viewers and explains the speaker's intent for the session.
JC opens with friendly greetings, reassurance, and a repeated affirmation of worth and capability to establish a supportive space. This orients viewers and explains the speaker's intent for the session.
The speaker explains that people can be motivated in many ways and announces that the video will focus on two kinds: approach and avoidance. This previews the main concept to be explored.
A concrete money-for-math example contrasts approach motivation (earning rewards for correct answers) with avoidance motivation (losing money for mistakes), and both concepts are defined and summarized. This helps viewers grasp the practical difference between the two styles.
The speaker explains that removing fear of failure encourages experimentation and better performance, then illustrates the point with examples of Babe Ruth, Kobe Bryant, and Brett Favre as risk-taking success stories. The segment ends with an invitation to use approach motivation with others.
Brief closing remarks wishing the audience a good Monday and a short sign-off, followed by an outro lyric.
Hey there, everybody. How are we doing on this Monday morning? Cheer up, Sleepy Gene. Oh, what can it mean to a daydream believer? That's what I was just listening to before I logged in. The little monkeys on this morning. Love me some monkeys. Hey, Speak Wonder. Nice to see you on this Monday. Hello and good morning to you as well. My name's JC. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now, right here in the Cadre Sphere.
I hope you're doing great, but if you're not, guess what? You're still incredibly worthy, incredibly capable, and you're probably going to do some remarkable things today. I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know the things I know and I care about you. I've said those things again and again and again and again, and I will continue to say those things again and again and again and again, not because it's automatic, but because those are the things that I think about when I enter the cadre sphere.
I think about the potential, the impact of humans seeing that there's lots of ways to be well and aspiring to be well so we can do the things we feel called to do in this world. So there's a big difference in how we motivate one another. Because we can motivate people in lots of different ways. We can motivate people by helping them dream or making them excited or making them scared or rewarding them or punishing them. We can motivate people in lots of ways. And today I want to share two of them.
approach and avoidance. Those words aren't really good at descriptors of what it means. Let me go ahead and invite you to think of it this way. Let's say I said, hey, speak wonder, let's do some math. For every single math question you get right, I'm going to give you a dollar. I'm going to ask you 10 questions. For every single question you get right, I'm going to give you a dollar. So you can get $10. That is approach motivation. Okay, take two. Okay, speak wonder. Here's $10. Okay? $10. I'm giving it to you right now.
We're gonna do some math. I'm gonna ask you 10 questions. For every single question you get wrong, I'm gonna take a dollar away. I'm gonna make you give me a dollar back every time you do something wrong. That is avoidance motivation. So approach motivation is we're going to praise you, we're going to incentivize you, we're going to celebrate when you do something right. Avoidance motivation, we're going to punish you or take something away every time you do something wrong. Now at the end of the day, you're like, okay, I'm going to end up with money anyway, either way, so why does it matter?
Here's what matters. When people are liberated from the idea that they can mess things up, they perform better. When people are given the space of like, oh, so if I just try here, no jest, if I try here, and I succeed, I'm going to get something. Yeah, I'm going to try and think and dream and experiment and imagine day in and day out. But if all of a sudden there's a chance that I may do something wrong and I'm going to lose something because of it, people are going to shy away from thinking big ideas and making big choices.
I think it was last week, maybe 2 weeks ago, I spoke about how Babe Ruth was the strikeout king. Kobe Bryant has missed more field goals than any other basketball player ever. Brett Favre has thrown more interceptions than any quarterback ever. All three of them failed in the biggest ways that they can in their sport. And also They've all won in ways bigger than any other colleagues. Those 3 are great examples of approach motivation. Someone was interviewing Babe Ruth once and he said, you know what, I could just hit a bunch of singles and I'd bat 600.
But I am praised for hitting the long ball, hitting the home run. So I'm going to strike out again and again and again because I ain't going to lose anything from that. But the opportunity of me maybe hitting that home run is worth it. So today I invite you to think about how can you approach motivate people. How can you make them dream and imagine and try and experiment? Those are going to be the people who get you and them and the world the furthest. Y'all have a great, great Monday. and I will see you tomorrow.
Bye. Daydream believer and a homecoming queen, you once thought of me as your white knight.
