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RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace….

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  2. Daniel Pink, the bestselling author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About
    What Motivates Us. So what does motivate us? The desire to be
    self-directed. The will to master something. The hope to make a
    contribution. It’s all what Pink calls “the purpose motive,” ?

  3. Wanted to post this. Watch it think about it, then well you know the rest.
    I’m a big fan of RSA I’ve been following them for awhile I believe they’re
    pretty clever.

    Well Enjoy!. ?

  4. as an unemployed person i really like this. i would rather live poor and
    with purpose than rich and miserable.?

  5. After commenting on post by +Donovan Colbert I had to go find the video I
    was talking about. Its amazing, and it explains IT People (in my opinion)
    perfectly.?

  6. “Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid
    or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”
    — Linus Torvalds

    On that note, I’d like to point out that faux-libertarian econo-dogmatists
    — who think humans are machines that rationally pursue maximum economic
    return — are idiots who have literally no idea how people work.?

  7. Uncovers the hidden truths and defies the common practices of motivation.
    An awesome and popular video about how to get the best out of people.
    This is an animated version of a speech by Daniel Pink.?

  8. What do you think motivates you to do your best work? Psychologists and
    Economists have shown repeatedly that when it comes to tasks requiring any
    sort of cognitive ability, the higher the monetary reward, the WORSE the
    performance. This sounds strange, we know. And yet, it’s true. This video
    explains why.?

  9. Caveat: Watch the whole thing before making any judgments about political
    motives.?

  11. Truth is everyone should be paid enough to not worry about money or
    slightly more. No need for all the excess, it destroys lives. Everyone ends
    up unhappy, even those who come out making millions most of the time.?

  14. Every now and again I wander off and do something fun that’s also sorta
    related to my work. I think the greatest satisfaction I get from working at
    the Linux Foundation is that I feel free and encouraged to creatively
    approach my workload — in a way that doesn’t just suck all fun out of my
    job (and I think that was my biggest problem working at McGill IT). I hope
    others on my team feel similarly encouraged to wander off every now and
    again and show up with cool stuff they came up with. :)?

  15. I’m working on a 5 year research study where we need to motivate users to
    participate. There are a lot of different “intangible” ways to motivate
    people to do things you want them to do…let’s take for instance making it
    a competition instead of rewarding with money “hahahahaha…HEY LOOK!!! I’m
    A GOLD Starbucks Member because I’ve bought “x” drinks and you are only
    BRONZE!”…this is all over the place….look at these facebook games! Holy
    molely! Some people are very serious about Farmville! Whoa! I tried to
    explain these matters to a person that is offering $1000 BONUS (through the
    workplace they are at) for anyone that quits smoking! I don’t think this
    person understood…watch this “incentive” just fly away into the
    wind…lalalalala…I’d bet money on it but I’d rather sit back and find
    out later that it didn’t work…I WIN! LOL! ps- I’m also a GOLD Starbucks
    Card Holder! Are you? BAM! ?

  18. Hmmm … maybe I can relate. I know this rewards will be great if I keep
    programming, but I don’t. I know I’m wasting my time with flappy birds –
    but I’m pretty motivated to surpass 100. ?

  20. I hadn’t seen this video in a while, but re-watching it, it has lost
    nothing of its potency.
    (You may have to stop and rewind every now and then, since this 10-min talk
    moves at lightning speed.)?

  21. A lot of software at Apache project is done at those paying jobs and the
    companies pay for it. There is slightly different business model – free
    testing by the users from the whole world, no obligations for bugs (e.g. no
    SLAs), ideas from talented people for free. They make pretty good money out
    of it.
    Another business model there – professional services for money. OSS is
    becoming increasingly complex and hard to setup and deploy correctly.
    I’m not saying you guys are wrong, I do support your point, but it’s just
    OSS part is not that simple.?

  23. Although I do believe this I don’t like it when you slap in the title
    things like “truth” or “believe” because it’s kind of telling the viewer
    that you better believe it. Again, I do believe this video.?