Quotes About Autonomy

Necesitamos una economía mundial plural en la cual los Estados-nación conserven la suficiente autonomía para elaborar sus propios contratos sociales y desarrollar sus propias estrategias económicas.

Daniel Alejandro Valdes

Afghan villages traditionally ran their own affairs, each valley a law unto itself. Afghanistan never enjoyed much of a central government.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. —Thomas Carruthers

Thinking about your ancestors makes you smarter. A research team led by Peter Fischer found that spending a few minutes contemplating your family tree (as opposed to contemplating a friend, or a shopping list, or nothing at all) significantly boosted performance on tests of cognitive intelligence. Their hypothesis is that thinking about our connections to the group increases our feelings of autonomy and control.

Keenly attend to team composition and dynamics. • Define, reinforce, and relentlessly protect the team's creative autonomy. • Make it safe to fail and to give feedback. • Celebrate hugely when the group takes initiative.

Make the Leader Occasionally Disappear: Several leaders of successful groups have the habit of leaving the group alone at key moments.

the feeling of control—whether real or illusory—is one of the wellsprings of mental health.

As our children turn even five or six degrees away from us, we have to be aware of our fear and our excitement and our hope for them. And as that five or sex degrees turns into ten or twenty degrees, even ninety degrees, we have to monitor those feelings every step of the way-and ultimately realize that our child is another human being and not necessarily and extension of us.

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

The science shows that the secret to high performance isn't our biological drive or our reward-and-punishment drive, but our third drive—our deep-seated desire to direct our own lives, to extend and expand our abilities, and to make a contribution.

if-then" rewards usually do more harm than good. By neglecting the ingredients of genuine motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose—they limit what each of us can achieve.

Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little "decision latitude." Behavioral scientists use this term to describe the choices, and perceived choices, a person has. In a sense, it's another way of describing autonomy—and lawyers are glum and cranky because they don't have much of it.

Jobs that are demanding but don't offer autonomy burn us out.

Management isn't about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices

autonomy over four aspects of work: what people do, when they do it, how they do it, and whom they do it with. As Atlassian's experience shows, Type I behavior emerges when people have autonomy over the four T's: their task, their time, their technique, and their team.

The most fulfilling jobs share a common trait: They prod us to work at our highest level but in a way that we, not someone else, control.

Carrots & sticks are so last century. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery & purpose.

Hire good people, and leave them alone.

for some people work remains routine, unchallenging, and directed by others. But for a surprisingly large number of people, jobs have become more complex, more interesting, and more self-directed.

By neglecting the ingredients of genuine motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose—they limit what each of us can achieve.

Jobs that offer autonomy but little challenge bore us.

This era doesn't call for better management. It calls for a renaissance of self-direction.