What we think about motivation and rewards may be totally wrong!
I don’t know about you but I was brought up on the rewards and penalties thing: reward what’s good and punish what’s bad, you’ll propel it towards good stuff. O yeah! Well that turns out to be total hocus pocus. Another of what I call “Hoaxes” (“Everybody knows that…” sort of thing).
To find out the truth, revealed by repeated scientific studies, not opinion, get a gander at this video.