Emotion through Curiosity

Description:

Motivator 7: Curiosity is the intrinsic lizard desire. Children are naturally very curious. They have a strong drive to explore and understand the world. We don’t lose this motivation as we get older. It is fun to be motivated by curiosity in itself because curiosity tend to have a strong pull on people’s behavior. Fear of missing out is what fuels this strong pull. However it requires something fundamental for activation. Without the embrace of ignorance, curiosity barely takes hold on a person’s behavior. When it activates though, it will never let go.

Motivator 7: Curiosity on the motivation map

Strengths:

·       Magnify the intensity of all emotions

·       High participating rate if the requirement mentioned above is fulfilled

·       Become a personal quest

Weaknesses:

·       Admitting ignorance is hard.

·       Easily addicted and hard to let go

·       Become demotivating if the magic trick is shown. By that I mean, you must never show how you motivate people using probability. Let them keep guessing the numbers.

Relationship with other motivators: 

.     Motivator 7: Curiosity is the opposite of Motivator 4: Security. Curiosity = 1/Security. The more security and predictability is influenced the less power that curiosity and unpredictability has and vice versa. It is a paradox to have both complete security and complete unpredictability.

.     Motivator 3: Freedom is enhanced by using Motivator 7: Curiosity. In fact they go hand in hand. To be creative, one has to become more curious of the unpredictable nature of the tasks. More exploration also leads to creative solutions. 

      Motivator 7: Curiosity techniques must be used before Motivator 2: Progress in order to motivate humans to start their journey. 

Psychological Techniques:

·       Random loot chests – Loot chests are incredibly compelling. They are hard to ignore because you never know what kind of awesome items you will get. If you get shitty ones, you just find another loot chest and hope for the best. The brain is inherently attracted to tame low probability systems (like slot machines) even though it can barely fathom it. That’s why it’s so compelling.

·       Surprise rewards: The element of surprise forcefully activate curiosity and the person can’t help but crack a smile. When the brain encounters sudden rewards, it tries to understand what triggers it. So it will spend a lot of time in the system trying to figure out the causes so that it can get that reward again. Although discovering the trick will eliminate the motivation in the first place, the brain doesn’t care.

·       Lottery: A lottery has two components. A huge reward and a low barrier of entry. The reason why the lottery (or anything that possess these two components) is popular because it feels effortless to win something so big although the chance of winning is exceedingly small. Humans are lazy by default and winning easy money is the best thing that could happen for most people. They are curious of what will happen if they win the lottery. What kind of things will they buy? How will they help the family? The daydreaming is part of the pleasure of buying a lottery ticket.