Field Notes · What moves a person

What moves a person is never one thing.

Three forces sit under any potential move: the pain pushing someone out, the hygiene factors that pay the bills, and the pull of the mission. Everyone is a blend of all three. That blend, not the method that caught their attention, decides whether they say yes and whether it holds. Move the marker and see.

Field Notes · What moves a person
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An illustrative model, not a measurement. Real people break the pattern, which is the whole point. Pay and mission are drawn as a blend for clarity; in truth someone can want both at once.

How you catch someone's attention is your move. Why they would leave is theirs. Do not mistake the first for the second.