Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

... and, and that really what it is.

I mean, and you know, if you were to look at, um, there's a really great book called Drive, and it's by a man named Daniel Pink.

And it's-

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If you have not read the book Drive by Daniel Pink-

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That's what I'm trying to say.

But this idea of, "I can't handle local authority, I want to be independent," it perhaps for some people kind of leans into this idea of, "Oh, this is an easy out." Now, if you've read the book Drive by Daniel Pink, it's all about our motivation and our external or our ex-extrinsic motivation versus our intrinsic motivation.

And what he talks about and what has been found consistently across any single area is that it-- extrinsic motivation doesn't work.

So if you are doing something, this is how I kind of think of it in social work, if you have a social worker who is extrinsically motivated, so they, they wanna leave, uh, their local authority role because they want more money, that's an-- money is the extrinsic motivator.

We all know that one of the keys to a successful business is creating a great culture, somewhere people can thrive, and in doing so, pour that positive energy into the impact we are trying to make.

But how do we do that? In the book Drive, Dan Pink boils down what best energizes us as a combination of autonomy, mastery, and purpose, which is great, but still feels pretty abstract.

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It makes it that much more easy to be engaged.

And that makes sense given the research from the book Drive by Daniel Pink.

Now, Drive goes into what he calls the surprising science of what motivates us, because I think very often we think of motivation as being driven by, you know, money or power or, you know, prestige.

We wanna be recognized.

T- there are sit- certain situations where that's true, but in our world, that- that's not really what Dan would say is important.

Always be the person who talks well about others when they're not around.

When I was putting together this podcast, I grabbed a book, and the book is called Drive, written by a gentleman by the name of Daniel Pink.

And it's about the drive, the human drive.

What drives us? Okay, here it goes, Amanda.

What motivates, no, it's not motivate.

What motivates us? What drives us? What inspires us? What, at our core, human beings, what do we want? And he does such a fabulous job in that book, Drive, naming and identifying the three things that human beings want.

So maybe in this journey to determine whether motivation is BS, maybe this will help.

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But everybody's working 60s because you have this sort of cascade failure of broken promises.

Did we talk about meaning? Dan Pink wrote a book called Drive.

It's a fantastic video on YouTube.

A bunch of them out there.

There's a great book by Daniel Pink.

It's called Drive.

which I highly recommend everyone to read.

And there are three things that motivate people anywhere around the world.