I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth of mind, body, spirit, and work.

Have you ever wondered what really motivates people at work, what really motivates your employees.

I've interviewed close to 4,000 people for jobs at Mind Valley, and I started noticing a pattern.

These people would come from a variety of different countries here across Mind Valley.

We employ people from 54 different nations.

And personally out of 4,000 interviews, I notice that when I asked people what do you want

out of a job,

it would always fall in four categories.

So I started this simple experiment.

I would hold up an iPad and I would list the four categories.

Now first let me explain what the four categories are. People

take jobs not for contrary to popular belief, the salary or the title or what they're

going to be doing. They think that's why they join a company.

But really, when you take a job, it is not a brain-based decision. It's a heart-based decision.

So what does the human heart want, right? Well, the first thing is happiness. We want to wake up every

day knowing that we're going to be working around people who light us up, that we're going to be

doing things, that we love doing, that we're going to be in a space that's inspiring.

The second is growth, and growth means that we are becoming better and better at being human, at being ourselves, not just in terms of skills, but in terms of transformation.

We're becoming healthier, we're becoming wiser, we're becoming more confident, we're becoming more connected, we are growing

as individuals. The third big thing that people are looking for is abundance. Now, abundance simply

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