The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Daniel Pink’s book Drive.
“Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others–sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on–can sometimes have dangerous side effects.”
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The following great insight has been adopted from Daniel Pink’s book Drive
“The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.”
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The following insight has been adopted from Daniel Pink’s book “A Whole New Mind“
“A calling is the most satisfying form of work because, as gratification, it is done for its own sake rather than for the material benefits it brings.”
A calling thus can get the best out of us..
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The following 4 ways mentioned by Daniel Pink in his book Drive explain us how to offer praise in order to ensure that intrinsic motivation based behavior is triggered to encourage creativity and innovation at workplaces:
1. Praise EFFORT , STRATEGY and NOT INTELLIGENCE
2. Make PRAISE SPECIFIC
3. PRAISE in PRIVATE
4. Offer PRAISE only when there is a GOOD REASON for it
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A “B” Corporation is a designation that requires companies to amend their bylaws so that the incentives favor long term value and social impact instead of short term economic gain.
The creation of such a corporation bears ample testimony to the fact that modern day human beings are driven by intrinsic motivation rather than extrinsic short term rewards.
Daniel Pink makes a mention of the same in his book Drive
For more details on B Corporation please refer to the following link from Wikipedia..
Creative , heuristic skills possessed by an ARTIST are very much in demand in the modern day wherein users have access to information over the internet and social media.
Left brain capabilities of TECHNICIANS was the need of the hour in the Industrial Age where PROBLEM SOLVING was the most needed skill in the absence of freely available information.
The proliferation of the internet with freely available information has made RIGHT brain skills namely PROBLEM FINDING the need of the hour.
Thus PROBLEM SOLVING driven by LEFT brain capabilities has started losing its relevance and is slowly giving away to PROBLEM FINDING in the modern age of the internet.
Daniel Pink makes a mention of the same in his book Drive
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“People can have two different mindsets, she says. Those with a “fixed mindset” believe that their talents and abilities are carved in stone. Those with a “growth mindset” believe that their talents and abilities can be developed. Fixed mindsets see every encounter as a test of their worthiness. Growth mindsets see the same encounters as opportunities to improve.”
Adopted from Daniel Pink’s book Drive
“Today, the defining skills of the previous era—the “left brain” capabilities that powered the Information Age—are necessary but no longer sufficient. And the capabilities we once disdained or thought frivolous—the “right-brain” qualities of inventiveness, empathy, joyfulness, and meaning—increasingly will determine who flourishes and who flounders.”
Adopted from Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind
The human tendency to remember UNFINISHED tasks better than FINISHED tasks is known as ZEIGARNIK effect.
This thus means that when we take a break it would be easier to start if we finish with some unfinished task.
Daniel Pink mentions the same in his book When
“We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities of what’s rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.”
Adopted from Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind