If you want to understand motivation, not just for “today’s attention challenged individual on the go”, but something that’s universally applicable, I’d suggest you go to the source and look up self determination theory.
I’d be happy to apply the theory on your case, but for the sake of brevity I shall refrain from doing so unprovoked.
The tldr is that there’s three basic knobs you can twist to affect someone’s motivation: competence, self determination and belonging. You don’t need to actually invoke real change, but strengthening a person’s perception of those feelings will induce a positive psychological impact.
Like we can focus on memes alone, please!
If you want to understand motivation, not just for “today’s attention challenged individual on the go”, but something that’s universally applicable, I’d suggest you go to the source and look up self determination theory.
I’d be happy to apply the theory on your case, but for the sake of brevity I shall refrain from doing so unprovoked.
The tldr is that there’s three basic knobs you can twist to affect someone’s motivation: competence, self determination and belonging. You don’t need to actually invoke real change, but strengthening a person’s perception of those feelings will induce a positive psychological impact.