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Drive the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Review Youtube

Back in January I listened to a library audio copy of Drive: The Surprising Truth Nigh What Motivates U.s. past Daniel Pink. It was one of those synchronicity books: unaware of the book, Matt had come up across the RSA summary and shared it with me so a 24-hour interval or two later I was browsing my blood brother's Amazon wishlist and saw the title there. And then I opened a new tab in my browser, went to the library's site, searched for the book, and not just did they have a difficult copy, only they had a downloadable sound copy! Click, click, and now I had motivation for folding laundry.

Here is the brief summary review I wrote for my Goodreads account in January:

Working for rewards is demotivating to all work just the almost rote and grueling. People want meaning and mastery more than than wealth-maximization, but our current systems for the virtually part conceive of people more as trick ponies or vending machines rather than humans. Nearly jobs and the educational activity organization are set up in dehumanizing ways, and should be revamped to be more in keeping with current scientific discipline. That is, current science is finally coming around to corroborate what used to be traditional, classical mutual sense.

I am glad I read information technology (yeah, listening counts equally reading) only as I was gearing up to programme school. Information technology actually did affect how I planned and arranged our lessons. And at present that we are nearing the stop of our second term, I tin as well attest that the changes I made based on this book'south observations have been benign. I have had much less push-back from my sons than I have in previous years, and I recollect it is because I kept Pinkish's three aspects in the forefront every bit I laid out our plans.

Pink begins by telling the story of some fascinating experiments which, over and over again, prove that if-then rewards are actually demotivating. Carrot-and-stick-blazon rewards (subsidize what yous want and penalize what you don't) usually do non work; and the cases in which they do are few and specific. In fact, the consequences of dangling-carrot rewards was phenomenal:

  1. They kill intrinsic motivation
  2. Very high rewards crusade stress and decrease operation
  3. They help motivation for algorithmic tasks, but deaden heuristic, creative thinking
  4. They decrease motivation for altruistic behaviors
  5. They increment unethical behavior
  6. They cause dependency (higher rewards are needed for same result)
  7. They reduce the depth & latitude of our thinking
  8. They promote "quick gear up" brusque-term solutions (or cheating)

The underlying foundational question Pink begins with is Are we primarily economic beings, out to maximize wealth?

Turns out not. This is the simplistic, modern, industrial-era anthropology. It was convenient, and because industrial work is primarily rote, it was generally effective in its fourth dimension. Withal, industrialization was a blip in the span of history, and we are over it already. Rote, systematic tasks are now either washed by machines, computers, or outsourced to cheaper labor around the globe. American chore growth is based primarily in jobs requiring artistic thinking or the personal touch, jobs that cannot be done by computers alone.

And, what of our educational theory and exercise? Is education a rote procedure that nosotros could write a computer script to complete? Is it a logic-based exercise in getting the right answers on a workbook page? Or is it a uniquely human being part? Does our education ask the students to apply themselves to the task at hand and transform the blank paper into an essay or illustration? Practice nosotros, moreover, ask that the educatee open himself upwardly to transformation, to re-cosmos? What anthropology are we unconsciously applying in our day to solar day assistants of school and life?

The truth of the matter is that nosotros are not wealth maximizers. It would be more than accurate to say we are happiness maximizers, which is non [always] tied to wealth. Instead, Pink posits, happiness and satisfaction center on having these three operators in our lives:

  1. Autonomy: the ability to accept at least some self-direction.
  2. Mastery: the ability to ameliorate ourselves in a field or skill.
  3. Purpose: the ability to contribute to something bigger than ourselves.

To exist purely economically motivated, nosotros must be, as Weaver points out, egoists. Yet, fifty-fifty science is now debunking this narrow interpretation of humanity and society. Ideas might have consequences, just the truth will out. Ideas can't change the way the globe, under God's sovereign hand, actually operates.

The psychological and sociological discussion is interesting, simply what struck me was how applicable it was to childrearing and homeschooling. How exercise we care for our children? What practice we expect ourselves to respond to? Over the side by side week, I want to look at each of the three factors Pinkish develops and employ them to homeschooling and housework, to our children and ourselves.

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  6. Finding Motivation: Purpose in [Dwelling house] School and [House] Piece of work

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Source: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2012/review-drive-motivation/