{"id":1473,"date":"2014-11-26T23:48:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T22:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2014-11-26T23:56:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T22:56:25","slug":"on-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"On Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if challenges come into your life at the same rate as the aptitude you have to tackle them?<\/p>\n<p>Think of the games you play. \u00a0They are most enjoyable when you play people who have roughly your own level of skill. \u00a0Playing with those that are much better or much worse is either frustrating or tedious.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the workplace.\u00a0 We all like to be challenged just enough to better our game &#8211; but not so much that we give up and become despondent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You\u00a0come unstuck when you try to tackle challenges that are way beyond you.<br \/>\n&#8211; You have a limited patience threshold for things that do not challenge you.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Pink articulated the three most important thing to motivate people in the workplace:\u00a0Autonomy, MASTERY and Purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Mastery is all about taking on new challenges that stretch you &#8211; but don&#8217;t stretch you so much that you\u00a0lose the plot or lose the game so often that you give up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/challenge.img_assist_custom-320x186.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1475\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?attachment_id=1475\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/challenge.img_assist_custom-320x186.jpg?fit=319%2C186\" data-orig-size=\"319,186\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"challenge.img_assist_custom-320&#215;186\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/challenge.img_assist_custom-320x186.jpg?fit=300%2C174\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/challenge.img_assist_custom-320x186.jpg?fit=319%2C186\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1475\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/challenge.img_assist_custom-320x186.jpg?resize=392%2C256\" alt=\"challenge.img_assist_custom-320x186\" width=\"392\" height=\"256\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe life&#8217;s a game where every challenge we face has just the right amount of challenge to keep us\u00a0improving?<\/p>\n<p>Makes you think the next time you face a challenge that seems impossible. \u00a0Go for it! \u00a0It might not be as difficult as you first thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if challenges come into your life at the same rate as the aptitude you have to tackle them? Think of the games you play. \u00a0They are most enjoyable when you play people who have roughly your own level of skill. \u00a0Playing with those that are much better or much worse is either frustrating or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Challenges&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42,40,60,57],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-nL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2002,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=2002","url_meta":{"origin":1473,"position":0},"title":"TT1947 &#8211; Learning to Learn Again","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"21\/11\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"When faced with a challenge, some folks lark aboutThinking it\u2019s funny. 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