Soma cube
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Oct 7, 2026
James SeechurnGUEST
And I actually keep this on my desk here as well.
James SeechurnGUEST
You might, you won't be able to see this in the podcast, but this is called a, this is called a Soma Cube.
Ruth ThomasHOST
Mm-hmm.
James SeechurnGUEST
So this was used by a very young, um...
James SeechurnGUEST
You can see, you can take it apart into pieces here and reassemble it.
James SeechurnGUEST
I recommend everyone get a Soma Cube.
James SeechurnGUEST
They're tremendous fun.
James SeechurnGUEST
And this was used in, by a very young Edward Deci, who Ed- Edward Deci and Richard Ryan wrote "The Self-Determination Theory," thesis, with a lot of other researchers.
James SeechurnGUEST
And I actually keep this on my desk here as well.
James SeechurnGUEST
You won't be able to see this in the podcast, but this is called a Soma Cube.
James SeechurnGUEST
So this was used by a very young, you can see you can take it apart into pieces here and reassemble it.
Ruth ThomasHOST
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James SeechurnGUEST
And this was used by a very young Edward Deasy, who Edward Deasy and Richard Ryan wrote the self-determination theory thesis with a lot of other researchers.
James SeechurnGUEST
And what happens is if you pay someone to do something, they will do that thing and then they will stop.
James SeechurnGUEST
And they use the soma cube to test that theory and showed that if you didn't offer an incentive, they would keep experimenting, they would keep exploring.
James SeechurnGUEST
So I keep this on my desk as a reminder that you need to keep experimenting, you need to keep being curious.