Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

[awake]

This is a provocative short on Money and motivation

[Rhiannon12866]

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

This should be required viewing for all employers...

[On the Road]

2. Really Good

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]

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

[JNelson6563]

4. That was great!

[thesquanderer]

5. Unanswered question...

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.