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awake

(3,226 posts) Fri Jul 11, 2014, 01:21 PM Jul 2014

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

This is a provocative short on Money and motivation

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Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (Original Post) awake Jul 2014 OP

K&R! Fascinating and well worth watching! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2014 #1

Really Good On the Road Jul 2014 #2

Saw this a few years ago and fwd'd it around. Never managed to read Dan Pink's book, though. Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2014 #3

That was great! JNelson6563 Jul 2014 #4

Unanswered question... thesquanderer Jul 2014 #5

Rhiannon12866

(258,750 posts)

1. K&R! Fascinating and well worth watching!

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Fri Jul 11, 2014, 02:26 PM

Jul 2014

This should be required viewing for all employers...

On the Road

(20,783 posts)

2. Really Good

Reply to awake (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2014, 05:11 PM

Jul 2014

As a former Psych major, I love seeing these things. RSA seems like a particularly good series.

At one point, however, the talk seems to say that the experimental results contradicted behaviorism, since money is a reinforcement. However, there are many reinforcements and punishments. These results seem consistent with Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance experiments decades ago. Whenever you get beyond simple tasks by simple organisms, there are a lot of things going on, including feedback loops. In my mind, this complexifies behaviorism and makes it more sophisitcated.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)

3. Saw this a few years ago and fwd'd it around. Never managed to read Dan Pink's book, though.

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Fri Jul 11, 2014, 07:19 PM

Jul 2014

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)

4. That was great!

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Sat Jul 12, 2014, 09:34 AM

Jul 2014

thesquanderer

(13,105 posts)

5. Unanswered question...

Reply to awake (Original post)

Sat Jul 12, 2014, 11:19 AM

Jul 2014

He explains why money was not a motivation for the best people. But he doesn't explain why, not only wasn't it a motivation, but the people actually did *worse* when money was offered as motivation. That's the more interesting part I was waiting for.

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