The surprising truth about what motivates us, a speech by Daniel Pink explains to us that we as people don't need to be motivated to something well. Daniel Pink, the author of A Whole New Mind, gives us the perception that motivation does not affect how we perform something unless it is easy and mindless work. Now that might seem crazy to you and I that people don't need motivation to perform a task well because that is how we were taught, but science is showing more and more that this accusation is false. One of my take-aways was when he said people will do work for free on their own time and they don't need to be paid. In my opinion it makes sense in a way because studies show that doing hard work that requires thought doesn't need motivation and that you will do something worse if you do get a reward. I also thought it was interesting how a software company in Australia lets people do whatever they want and work with whoever they want for one day of the year. From this the company got many new software ideas and many products were created, just from letting their imaginations run wild. During his speech Pink seemed pretty relaxed and comfortable to be speaking about his topic, but the part that made me listen was that he was passionate about what he was saying. I like it when speakers get passionate about their work because it means that they really want the world to feel what they're feeling. Unlike a usual speech where you see the speaker up on stage this was an animated speech, where the Daniel Pink was speaking in the background while an artist was drawing what he was saying. In my opinion I thought at times it was a little bit distracting, but I thought it was interesting to literally see his speech come alive. I think it helped further his cause and made people believe in what he was trying to get across. This speech really made me think about my own life and what motivates me and if I need motivation to get something done. To be honest I'm like the people in the speech, if it's easy mindless work I would like a reward, but if I'm doing schoolwork then I don't need a reward because I'm just used to that. One part in the video that was crazy was that people in rural India who are in poverty work better if they don't have a reward. This really proves the science that anyone in this world will work better without a reward or motivation. You may think that Daniel Pink is crazy and that is too far-fetched, but if you look inside yourself you may find out that he is right.
Link to the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Other links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
This video by Daniel Pink goes even further into the idea of motivation and what it is so puzzling. He starts off with an experiment where one group of students is paid to do a task and the other group, and the group who didn't get paid worked faster just like his other video. When you see him on stage he seems more uptight, but once he gets started you really understand why this video is so important.
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