What Motivates Us

June 3rd, 2010 | 2,678 views | 9 Comments » |

Amazing presentation by Dan Pink.

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9 Comments on “What Motivates Us”

  1. 1 Chris said at 12:07 am on June 3rd, 2010:

    I saw the original TED talk about this a while ago, it’s pretty amazing.

  2. 2 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 12:11 am on June 3rd, 2010:

    I agree — good stuff! TED is amazing!

  3. 3 Chris said at 6:24 am on June 3rd, 2010:

    I don’t know if you’ve read my statuses on the end of money, but it always interests me when I see findings like this. Money essentially has to stop being the motivation if we want to advance at a faster rate.

    I dunno, I just find all of these variables very interesting.

  4. 4 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 9:05 pm on June 13th, 2010:

    Not sure if money will ever stop being a motivation for some people.

  5. 5 Chris said at 10:35 pm on June 13th, 2010:

    Probably not for a few generations considering how heavily influencing it can be. Thing is that once the majority of mechanical jobs are taken by technology, then that leaves jobs that require cognition, I don’t know if people will team up with others who want digits in return for their work, because that wouldn’t allow for optimum group thinking power.

  6. 6 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 12:15 am on June 15th, 2010:

    Imagine a world where most humans don’t have to work. I wonder what that would be like…

  7. 7 Martin said at 6:23 am on September 11th, 2010:

    Hi, what is the url for the Ted version? , saludos ;-)

  8. 8 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 6:29 am on September 11th, 2010:

    It’s http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

  9. 9 Michel Barakat said at 8:10 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Amazing studies and very well narrated. I believe that past the point of a secure life, making more money become obsolete. People realize that their time is short and that they should spend it wisely, fill a purpose, work towards things that matter. That’s one of the reason, in my opinion, why a lot of people don’t complete their PhDs for example. They realize that, if not led by a purpose to make things better, their end-reward no longer has a high value.


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