The Problem With Opportunity Cost Is That

In Terms Of The Actual Curriculum For Management Education, My Own View Is Very Simple-minded: The World Is Incredibly Complex, It Changes All The Time, And We Should Not Even Hope That We Could Create A General Model That Accurately Describes The World In All Its Possible States.

Giving Up On Our Long-term Goals For Immediate Gratification, My Friends, Is Procrastination.

We Are All Far Less Rational In Our Decision-making Than Standard Economic Theory Assumes. Our Irrational Behaviors Are Neither Random Nor Senseless: They Are Systematic And Predictable. We All Make The Same Types Of Mistakes Over And Over, Because Of The Basic Wiring Of Our Brains.

To Summarize, Using Money To Motivate People Can Be A Double-edged Sword. For Tasks That Require Cognitive Ability, Low To Moderate Performance-based Incentives Can Help. But When The Incentive Level Is Very High, It Can Command Too Much Attention And Thereby Distract The Person’s Mind With Thoughts About The Reward. This Can Create Stress And Ultimately Reduce The Level Of Performance.

The Experiments Show Quite Clearly That, As You Resist More And More Temptation, You're Actually More And More Likely To Fail.