A new twist on motivation LO4479

Dave Birren, MB-5, 608-267-2442 (BIRRED@dnr.state.wi.us)
Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:16 CST

Responding to John Zavacki's comment in RE: Inter-species play LO4367:

> "play" in the animal kingdom is training. Notice the cuffs, nudges,
>rolls. I do no believe it is intended as play. The true learning
>organization resides in a deer herd after the first shot of rifle season,
>or the grouse as the food gets thin. We can intellectualize and manipulate
>the semantic coding strip until it is no longer recognizable, but we are
>not going to learn as a team until we need to survive as a team.

This has deep implications for motivaton. Anyone care to pick up that
thread and weave with it?

Dave

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