the Walt Disney effect

there is an automatic association between Walt Disney and fairy tales, where everything is beautiful, like in a wonders world. Sometimes, analyzing people´s motivation at work, it comes to my mind.

A good friend of mine usually says “motivation is an equation with lots of unknowns”. In each case, those unknows will be solved with different factors: salary,  training, conciliation, career development, our boss, our colleagues, ... and an endless number of variables which mostly depend on individual evaluations. Once these  conditions have been fulfilled we feel satisfied, but this satifaction will have an expiring date. When it arrives the human mind will start ignoring them and overestimating the ones that are not filled, even the ones that before were meaningless. Slowly these conditions will stand out from the rest and we will behave less implicated, less motivated, believing that the company owes us something else. A positive view is turning into something negative.

On that point, is were I apply my theory of the “Walt Disney effect”. We were living a situation where most of the unknowns in the equation were filled, and suddenly we are living in “hell”.

We have been overcame by boredom, comformism, apathy, burocracy, ...We have became bourgeois, unpleasant, indifferent ... And now, what? Will we remember our origin or just keep thinking that we are in “hell”?. It´s a personal choice. Up to you!!!.  Choose the right one!!!.