For a week in March, all of the health volunteers in Peace
Corps Peru 22, congregated in Lima and Chaclacayo once again for EIST—Early
In-Service Training. The general
consensus was that this one week was far more useful than the ten weeks we’d
had when we first arrived. And it’s
true, EIST had many useful sessions and prompted many reflective moments. None more so than the brief talk about the
different ways people are motivated.
You see, throughout the entire week, the Peace Corps staff
had been encouraging us to participate by offering premios—suckers, chocolates,
and so forth—to those of us who answered and stayed awake. Guess what?
A sucker doesn’t effing motivate me.
If I’m not answering a question it’s because I don’t know the answer,
not because I’m willfully holding back. And being told that I’ll get a sucker if I try
makes me feel patronized and annoyed.
So now we know.
Besos!
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