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Money Vs. Happiness, Which One Makes You Perform Better? When it comes to productivity, which one motivates you better? Is it money or your happiness? As people say, when you are happy doing something, nothing really bothers you as long as you keep your focus on your work. That means to say that you are passionate about your craft. For whatever reason, you are just there to deliver. However, when money becomes involved, doesn't that change your motivation to a higher level? Performance is seen as how you carry yourself on the journey behind that output. It's more of the qualities that you equipped yourself in order to perform better. Personally, I would say that money can buy happiness. With money, you can buy what you want. When you are able to make that happen, you become happy. On the other hand, it's joy that money can't buy. Joy has something to do with your inner fulfillment. It is about the things that you have fulfilled emotionally and psychologically. But when it comes to performing better, is it about the money that drives you or you are just happy doing it? **A class was divided into 6 groups. Each group had 5 members each. The first 3 groups (A) were separated in a room from the other 3 groups (B).** The task is to build the tallest structure within 25 minutes. They were given 20 pieces of spaghetti sticks, 1 roll of yarn, and a marshmallow. The team that has the tallest structure as the clock expires will be the winner. However, the 1st 3 groups (A) were informed that they'll get **$500** for whoever builds the tallest structure while the remaining 3 groups (B) were not. So that gives the first 3 groups a whole lot of motivation. As the activity goes on, group A was more intense about winning the activity because $500 is at stake. Meanwhile, group B was just enjoying the process and gave out many suggestions on how to efficiently build the tallest structure. As the clock expires, the group under A that had the tallest structure had ***21 inches*** tall while the group under B had ***25 inches tall.*** This goes to show that ***group B had performed better than group A***. It is because they were just having fun all throughout the activity. They come up with a lot of suggestions and they tried out each as much as possible. They were not under pressure and so their brains functioned well. Meanwhile, the groups in A were deeply motivated because of the reward. It's mind conditioning of "**if-then**" reward. The tendency is that their brains were too focused on getting the reward and the ideas were narrowed to only limited ones. Basically, when it comes to creative tasks, happiness will surely make you perform better. Then again, when money gets involves, it gets into your personal beliefs and values because a person would do what it takes to get that money. Does that explain to strip clubs too? Meanwhile, productivity wouldn't be a sort of issue at work if you love what you are doing. But other people would say that it's the motivation that drives you to perform better and not the end result you focused on. If you are a teacher, you love teaching and it is your passion, you are getting paid for it, wouldn't that boost your drive to perform better and be productive? That explains how motivation influences a person's drive towards achieving a goal. But if you only do your job for money, then one would expect you to be less effective and efficient because you don't have the full commitment of doing it. **Lead image source** https://time.com/collection/guide-to-happiness/4856954/can-money-buy-you-happiness/ Thanks for reading. Keep safe everyone.

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