When people operate out of fear, what they see, the things they do, the results they get, and their evaluation of those results will be different than if they went through the same process based on the desire to achieve a great purpose. In terms of human performance, the higher up the continuum, the more effective and enduring the motivation will be. Our desire to learn is useless without an opportunity to gain new knowledge or skills. An environment rich with opportunities to acquire new knowledge fosters high performance. We can gain new knowledge in different ways.
Most people have a preferred learning style.
Just as there are different learning styles, there are also different knowledge types. High performance in work and life is based on more than strict reasoning ability. Our ability to relate effectively with others, control our emotions, defer gratification, and focus our whole being on a task matters just as much, if not more, than traditionally measured intelligence. All sorts of things occur to help one that never would have otherwise occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.