Dien --

First lets seperate your two stories as I think they are talking about different things. The brick story is fine. I take issue with the first story by the personnel director.

See - people approach things in different ways. I can see two types of motivation in the example you provided by the personnel director. Neither is better than the other. If you try to change the way a person motivates themselves you do yourself no favors. Because of this assessing people in the manor described can actually cause you to overlook some valuable talent and promote others who should not be.

This can also be tied to sales. Knowing how a person motivates themselves helps you to move them towards a buying decision.

Reference the book I recommened on the "Study Group" for an excellant reference to these sort of things.

I absolutely agree with you on how language can influence children in their endeavors. And I get plenty of opportunity to test that out!

Hope that helps.

-- Dan Butler




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