TL;DR: Title. Do you respond better to positive or negative reinforcement?
why do you think that is?
What kind of personality do you have? Do you think this affects your answer to the first question?
Whenever I'm doing anything I tend to procrastinate. As most people do, in Panda's I was really hoping to fight the Sha of Procrastination but it never showed up. When I got to thinking about the types of motivation and chopping them up to either positive or negative I found I responded a lot better the negative motivators then positive ones.
The simplest example I could think of would be an assignment from school. Usually given all the time in the world to do it. If I start early and show pride in my work I'll be rewarded with a good grade. The parents will see the good grade and I'll be rewarded again with some sort of treat, (not true for all families but that's how it was at my house it wasn't like handouts for trying as it is now a day's but if you showed you excelled at something people in my circle would commend that).
The alternative to doing this assignment would be a failed mark resulting in a failed grade and potentially causing me to fail the course. Which would result in repeating the course and disappointing my circle of support.
That was what got me motivated more than anything growing up and it is still true for me this day. I feel like I'd be letting people down if I don't live up to their and my own expectations for myself.
Growing off of that whenever I tackle anything in life that will have an impact on me good or bad, I tend to view the consequences before the positives. And I responded better to being punished verse being rewarded as a kid. Yet if I were to describe myself today I'd say I were a positive and outgoing type of person... Where as looking at some kids today who are spoiled rotten as children grow up into little shits as teenagers. Not sure if there is a co-relation with this or not.
I'm curious to know how the rest of MMO Champion feels about this.