Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Throughout this book, it was divided into not only chapters, but subchapters and Motivations. As these will be covered throughout this paper.
Let us begin with part one, “The New Operating System”. It talked about society, like computers have operating systems; sets of assumptions and protocols about how the world works and how humans behave that run beneath our laws, economic arrangements and business practices. These are what Daniel H. Pink called Motivations. Motivation 1 through 3 was covered in this chapter.
Motivation 1: Discussed how humans were biological creatures, struggling to obtain our basic needs for food, security and sexual relations.
Motivation 2: Carrots
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Only engagement can produce mastery, becoming better at something that matters. Solving complex problems requires an inquiring mind and the willingness to experiment one’s way to a fresh solution. The pursuit of mastery has become essential to making one’s way in the economy. Mastery begins with “flow” optimal experiences when the challenges we face are exquisitely matched to our abilities.
Throughout this book, Daniel Pink writes of three drives, deduced from psychological experimentation, that motivate animal/human behavior:
1) Biological-hunger, thirst and copulation (Motivation 1.0)
2) Extrinsic reward. Reward and punishment delivered by the environment for behaving in certain ways (Motivation 2.0)
3) Intrinsic reward. The joy/satisfaction of completing a task motivates its completion. (Motivation 3.0) Though this book was very confusing at points for me, I do have to agree with just about everything Mr. Pink has written about. I got good psychological perspectives from this book from what he has described and what you have taught
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(Pink, p. 222) Autonomy is the degree to which people are allowed to direct their own work. People work better when they are given a good degree of autonomy over task (what they do), time (when they do it), team (who they do it with) and technique (how they do it). Mastery is becoming better at something that matters to the worker…Making progress in one’s work turns out to be the single most motivating aspect of many jobs. It is the capacity to see your abilities not as finite but as infinitely improvable. Purpose is important as people, by their nature, … seek to make a contribution and to be part of a cause greater and more enduring than themselves. Within modern organizations, “purpose motivation” is expressed in goals that use profit to reach purpose: in words that emphasize more than self-interest and in policies that allow people to pursue purpose on their owns
This book presents the relationship between human and animal behaviors and the behavior that is now created by our modern day society. The mind has two main parts. There is the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is the better half, yet it is potentially threatening; therefore, the conscious mind is aware at all times. The unconscious mind influences your behavior in many ways. Pi experiences both of these minds. Pi is consciously planning his survival and how he was going to spend his food, so he didn’t run out. His conscious mind contributed to Pi surviving at sea. Consequently, when Pi`s father fed a goat to a tiger to prove a point, he was unaware that this event changed his personality brutally. He became more
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The author trusts that all humans have some level of motivation as long as they exist. In turn, there are several well-known classic approaches that consider motivation such as instinct, drive reduction, arousal, incentive, and humanistic approaches. It is beyond the scope of this paper to describe all in detail, but a brief synopsis of each follows: (1) Instinct approach theorists suggest that humans have many diverse instincts that are biologically determined and cause innate patterns of behaviors such as reproducing, territorial protection, curiosity, acquisition, and fight, flight or freeze to name a few (McDougall, 1908). (2) Drive-reduction theory proposes that individuals have needs that are essential for survival and this need cause a tension to act called a drive. These drives entail primary drives for physical needs such as water and food, and acquired drives realized through conditioning or experience such as the need for income or social acceptance; whereas, one must meet the need to reduce the drive to return to a state of homeostasis (Hull, 1943). (3) Theorists who support an Arousal approach believe that humans are motivated by stimulation and people develop an optimal level of stimulus tension; whereas, task performances may suffer if the level is too high such as severe test anxiety or even too low such as boredom
Once stated by Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” The aforementioned ideology places an emphasis on an individual’s internal desires, rather than an outside/external force driving the individual’s consciousness (cognitive evaluation.) Therefore intrinsic motivation is one in which an individual 's own desire comes from within; a relentless and genuine passion for an intended goal. On the contrary, when an individual relies on external factors such as, a reward or any other form of external reinforcement, an extrinsic motivation is exhibited. Although society likes to stress the importance in pursuing an internal motivation, in today 's modern world, an extrinsic factor far outweighs an internal desire to accomplish an objective.
People’s lives can change when they read what kinds of books because books can influence human thinking. When people read some books about organization or leadership, they can act more close to these books or try. These books show people how to succeed and how to live effectively. On the other hand, some books such as fiction, essay literature, and others touch the people’s emotions. By reading a variety of books, people can gain knowledge and inspiration every area of their lives. Two helpful books include ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective people’ and ‘Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul’. The first book represents logical thinking and the second one does emotional thinking. By reading these two books, people can gain different perspectives, both logical and emotional, and adopt a more balanced way of living.
The two ideas: ‘need-satisfying urge of humans’ and ‘behavior leads to results’, forms the following idea. An individual may act in a certain way to satisfy his unmet needs, but that behavior brings a result, which may be satisfaction of that need itself or satisfaction of that need with something else. If that particular behavior brings some other result in addition to the need satisfaction itself, then it’s obvious that encouraging that behavior by means of ensuring greater need satisfaction yields more results.
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To begin with, humans are driven. Born as new, humans must learn their place in life. Physically, emotionally or ethically, minds must run and be guided by something. This ‘something’ that makes humans better, and forces humans to grow and advance. Something that guides humans t...
challenge of human existence - to find sound values, to grow as a person, and to build a meaningful and socially construc...
Self-determination theory is one that assumes all humans are born with an innate drive to better oneself, basically becoming self-actualized, which is referred to as full-functioning. In self-determination theory, or SDT, full-functioning is characterized as “being aware and mindful, acting autonomously…, and pursuing and attaining intrinsic life goals” (Deci, Ryan, and, Guay 2013). SDT describes three autonomous behaviors: intrinsically motivated, extrinsically motivated, and emotionally motivated. SDT also describes three psychological basic needs of every human: the needs for competency, autonomy, and relatedness. The need for competency causes people to try tasks slightly tougher than they can currently manage, in order to improve upon
According to Robert E. Quinn(p.205) there are two types of motivation (extrinsic and intrinsic). Extrinsic motivation refers to the source of motivation in which the behavior concern external factors such as money, praise or rewards. Whereas intrinsic motivation is the behavior which is internally concerning an individual.
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Mullins (2002) also classifies motivation into Intrinsic and Extrinsic types. Intrinsic motivation involves psychological rewards to enhance job satisfaction, such as the opportunity to use one's ability, a sense of achievement, receiving appreciation and positive recognition or being treated in a considerate manner (Mullins, 2002:P490). Such methods ensure employees are constantly motivated while being engaged in activities that are enjoyable and rewarding.
One contributing factor towards student success is student motivation. Motivation is reading unassigned books out of class that relate to the class subject matter, just to expand his or her knowledge. The need or want type of actions a persons’ mentality is, to reach a personal goal or objective of some sort. People’s motivational purpose in school can range from, higher earning potential, more job stability, greater benefits, and even just to gain more knowledge. In a YouTube video entitled “The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us” by Dan Pink, he suggests that three elements: purpose, mastery, and autonomy play a part towards true motivation. Autonomy is ones self-drive, while
I would recommend this book to everyone because it is interesting and it made me reflect about whom I am, and what I am doing with my life. It made me think about all the risk that I did not take because I was afraid of what others think. It made me realize that sometimes I need to be selfish with what I want. It gave me the pleasured to rethink about all the things that I did not say because I thought that it did not worth it. Sometimes it is difficult to understand all those things without being close to death. This book teaches me how can I be happy and be crazy because sometimes what we really thing is insane could be the most normal thing for others. It thought me to not be like everyone else if not to be different because that is only thing that could make us happy.