Drive
Daniel H. Pink Lyrics

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I saw you
I stood right there before you
And i knew this was right
When your eyes crossed mine
This is who we are
Driving recklessly fast in your car
No we don’t need no breaks
We’ve gone too far

On the road that seems
Like it's our own highway to future
Our future
Staring at you now i see
I have no way out
Every single time we meet
I loose all my control
Out of my mind
But when it all comes crashing down
Will you stick around with me?
This is who we are
Driving recklessly fast in your car
No we don’t need no breaks
'Cause that’s just how we are
Every single day
When i close my eyes
I hear you say
We’re young and beautiful
No we will never get old
Its you and me
Can you promise me
That we will stay forever young
Forever young
Staring at you now i see
I have no way out
Every single time we meet
I loose all my control
Out of my mind
But when it all comes crashing down
Will you stick around with me
Every single day
When i close my eyes
I hear you say
We’re young and beautiful
No we will never get old
Staring at you now i see
I have no way out
Every single time we meet
I loose all my control
Out of my mind

But when it all comes crashing down
Will you stick around with me

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Daniel H. Pink's song Drive convey a sense of reckless-yet-intense passion and a desire to hold onto youth and beauty for as long as possible. The song's protagonist is enamored with someone they've met, and the two of them are driving fast and free down a road that feels like it belongs to them. The singer, however, is aware that this feeling of invincibility won't last forever, and their fear of losing control and losing their partner weighs heavy on them.

Despite this fear, the singer seems to be wholly consumed by their desire for this person and their shared, youthful rebellion. By the end of the song, the singer is begging their partner to promise that they'll "stay forever young." It's a sentiment that captures the essence of the song's theme: a fear of mortality and an overwhelming urge to live life to its fullest while youth and beauty still last.

Overall, Drive is a passionate love letter to the freedom, beauty, and reckless abandon of youth. Through its lyrics, it captures the feeling of being young and in love, consumed by a desire to make the most of every moment before it's too late.

Line by Line Meaning

I saw you
I noticed you for the first time

I stood right there before you
I was in close proximity to you

And i knew this was right
I felt confident that being with you was a good decision

When your eyes crossed mine
Our gaze met and a connection was made

This is who we are
We are individuals with unique identities

Driving recklessly fast in your car
Taking risks and living life to the fullest

No we don’t need no breaks
We don't want to slow down or take a break from our fast-paced lifestyle

We’ve gone too far
We've reached a point of no return

On the road that seems
Metaphorical reference to the path we have chosen in life

Like it's our own highway to future
We have the power to shape our own destiny

Our future
Our destiny

Staring at you now i see
I am focused on you and only you

I have no way out
I am stuck in this situation and cannot escape

Every single time we meet
Every time we see each other

I loose all my control
I am unable to resist your influence

Out of my mind
I am acting irrationally because of my feelings for you

But when it all comes crashing down
When everything falls apart

Will you stick around with me?
Will you still be with me during difficult times?

Every single day
Each day

When i close my eyes
When I am lost in my thoughts

I hear you say
I imagine you speaking to me

We’re young and beautiful
We are full of life and vitality

No we will never get old
We will always be youthful in spirit

Its you and me
It is just the two of us

Can you promise me
Will you make a commitment to me?

That we will stay forever young
That we will always have a youthful, carefree spirit

Staring at you now i see
I am captivated by you

I have no way out
I am stuck in my feelings for you

But when it all comes crashing down
When everything falls apart

Will you stick around with me
Will you still be there for me when things get tough?

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01Drive

Daniel H. Pink

02Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Unabridged)

03A Whole New Mind (Unabridged)

04A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Unabridged)

05Drive - Part 1

06Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 1

07A Whole New Mind - Part 1

08Drive (Unabridged)

09A Whole New Mind - Part 2

10Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 3

11Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 2

12Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 4

13Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 5

14Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 16

15Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 15

16A Whole New Mind - Part 3

17Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 13

18Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 14

19Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 11

20Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Chapter 10

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@AnnoyedDragon

10y↑9

How about studying why the hell banks and often governments reward failure?

RBS bank made £8 billion in losses, they want to hand out 200% bonuses.

The home office here in the UK had poor performance, they handed out £6.5 million in bonuses.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole point of a bonus was to reward success. To motivate people to meet performance targets by offering them a cash incentive. What is with all the rewards for failure?

RBS says they have to attract the best talent with cash incentives if they're going to get back on their feet. Well it's quite clear that isn't working, given how badly they are doing despite all the money they're throwing at "talent".

All comments from YouTube:

@eXtremeDR

8y↑752

Working together on something for a purpose (other than just making profit) is awesome. People love to work but they hate to do useless work.

@lugainabdelazizyoussef8522

+eXtremeDR Can you please summarize this video for me ?

@bjfincher773

8y↑32

+Lugain A It's only ten minutes long, just watch it..

@c4p4c1t1v3

8y↑17

+eXtremeDR useless work that adds disproportionately to someone else's profits

@ElijahLynn

8y↑2

+eXtremeDR Which is why robots will be everywhere! They already control our elevators. Soon they will control our cars.

@houmanhosseini1782

8y↑1

isnt that what 13 years of school is....

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@jdaves1464

8y↑401

wish they showed the entire drawing at the end.

@digsjazzalot6022

8y↑88

I love the musical analogy. I spend endless time pursuing mastery in jazz (I've started a little too late) and I think am a better business person for it. Being able to work in a close knit ensemble, taking clues from workmates, bandmates, and being able to pivot to various and creative ideas is useful. Plus it's fun. It's fun to do fun things. As John Coltrane said, "Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious."

@BillYork

2y↑1

I have found that musical skill and accomplishment is very correlated with strong engineering talent

@aspirationalist

10y↑10

As an aspiring entrepreneur this talk was invaluable to me the first time I came across it. The whiteboard animation is such a good delivery method. Great stuff. My drive is to help others wherever I can. I have found that this mindset combined with genuine honesty naturally brings people together.

@alexgaeckle1540

8y↑24

I had to watch this for my Ethics class, and i subscribed. I think this is quite true because i am like this. I drum a lot and the only thing i care about when it comes to playing drums is mastery and purpose. I've quite recently got into autonomy. I do want to teach a drumline for free, i just want to teach and see people improve and building people with your inspiration and watching them manifest. It's one of the coolest things ever, and i want to this with anthropology, sociology and psychology.

@realitytalkwithfloncy9651

1y↑17

This is a great piece, especially in the field of development. I agree with your point "Pay people enough money to ensure that they are not distracted by money problem." I also, think that it's good to trust your employees once they have shown their trust, trust them to know what they are doing, avoid micromanage just give deadline, expectation and the objective.

@ScottGeyert3

10y↑169

This makes perfect sense in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. If you make money not an issue anymore is key. If people are worried about money, How they're going to pay the bills and survive, they're not going to be able to focus on cognitive tasks and perform well. "Autonomy," "Mastery," and "Purpose" fall under the "self-actualization" capstone. Money is not as important at that level of motivation.

@marlenenaquin5598

10y↑4

Always like Maslow

@Rhymneceros

10y↑11

Nice piece. Agreed, the management of organizational behavior research supports the idea that we need both profit and purpose. Profit is the price of getting people to work. Purpose, self-direction and mastery, is what gets them to perform at higher levels. What is surprising is that many people still don't get it.

@feelbrash2274

10y↑3

from the other side if people will think about how they're going to pay the bills and survive, they would earn money too. It calls negative motivation. I remember when my teacher told me that some people motivate theirselves by death. its sad but true

@TheCelvestian

10y↑1

I agree completely souly because people are concerned over their well being and (if they have a family) they will be concerned and keeping their family happy and healthy. Honestly people should be payed enough so they won't focus on getting money but rather focus on completing the work they do and the work they present to be efficient and very nice. We all know organizations and companies want people who can drive their business to newer heights, to be successful, to be better then any other organization, but how can they accomplish that without even concerning the people working FOR THEM, THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WORRY FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR LOVED ONES, it's a shame yet very obvious all at the same time...

This has been a post by Leonit Banipalsin, assigned by Mrs. Sheaff from English Class Per.2 Grade 11th.

@SCIENCEnENGINEER

Actually, not all people work this way. There are dysfunctioned people either by nature or by the influence of environment. Psychopaths/Sociopaths/Narcissists dont think about usefulness, helpfulness before their benefit and power of controlling; and other people (sheep) easily influenced/brainwashed by them will also eventually become the close versions of these psychopaths. Plus close-minded sheep, they're not smart but unwilling to collaborate with others or try to learn things. We end up with a less than 50% population who work the normal way as suggested by these motivation theory. But, the strongest motivation was not EVER addressed: THE BLIND BELIEF, whatever blind belief that brings about super willpower (Gods, idols, superman, fairies, angels, devils, imaginary lover..). This is the ONLY long term motivation, others are just short-term and more of a life guideline.

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@durgatruex5553

10y↑4

RSA and RSAnimate are my new favorite source of fresh education. Awesome speakers & subject matter, enriching in so many ways. Thanks for existing!

@Golf_Quest

11y↑17

This is not just about the Maslow hierarchy of needs, and I think it accurately reflects my own experience about what motivates knowledge workers. Speaking for myself, I am most highly motivated when working on my own ideas; and Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose are all part of my conscious or sub-conscious motivation. I'm going to do what Atlassian did with my team!

@shabangywangy3681

8y↑1.8K

You could possibly translate this ideology into the classroom by making learning the primary focus rather than grades.

@the_prophecyyy

7y↑12

Shabangy Wangy True

@TheRealBlueSwan

7y↑47

Yes. Absolutely! I always show this video to my students during the very first class.

@crimsonmask3819

7y↑31

Grades are not like money. Grades motivate by being a marker of mastery, not a resource or reward.

@TheRealBlueSwan

7y↑148

@Crimcon Mask. Depends on how you look at it. Mastery should be the object in itself. Many view grades as the reward which leads to other things (better jobs, money). Hence, getting the good grade becomes the object rather than mastery itself, which would lead students to cheat or to hide their weaknesses rather than bettering themselves.

@gizellesierra179

7y↑5

YES.

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@gabrielabalderamos647

7y↑1

I stood up and applauded all of you for taking your time and talents to allow bringing out the best of us

@harlowblackadder356

I watch this every year or so for the past 10+ years, and the message still stands.

@CrazyFactory741

9y↑11

This made me tear up a bit :') a bit of hope in my day for what drives humanity. Thank you for this information.

@markkennedy255

10y↑4

People are ultimately motivated by love and the desire to live a life of "purpose" that helps to make the world a better place for everyone. Money is not the bottom line in fact money should serve us not the other way around. Glad there are so many people waking up to reality of our true motivating force... love.

@taii_chii6782

9y↑1

these animations are the reason why i watch these videos. they feel so interactive. I love them

@comradefreedom8275

3y↑2

This truly makes more sense than the profit motive. I can speak from personal experience, money is the worst motivator anyone has ever given me.

@1MadVirus1

10y↑54

This is great! I love how we grow more awareness about making workplaces a fun places for people to collaborate and reach great goals, instead of just being a cog in a machine ran by greedy CEOs who only care about profits.

In the end we know that by having a fun, exciting and collaborative environment, by treating people like people instead of cogs, we can achieve more, create more and in the end have a greater impact and benefit on the world and in turn on ourselves.

@r.luisv.6598

43w

Maybe I'm strange and I can't speak for others. I'm not sure I buy into this 100%. I like the idea of autotomy and encouraging people to be creative and contribute their ideas to make the organization great. However, there should be mechanisms in place to allow employees to participate in the company's success and be rewarded them for their individual contributions. It would be very selfish of me to stay at work until 2:00AM every other day, working on cool things, if my family is not allowed to benefit from that in some way. I'm having fun, they get neglected. That is wrong. Those greedy CEOs may be spending the evening with their kids while I'm in the lab. When the fiscal year is over, they may be able to take their families to a fancy vacation, after they get done bragging to their friends in the country club about how they were able to cut costs, increase productivity and get a fat bonus by getting a bunch of nerds to work for free. Companies can get away with that for awhile. But nerds are not stupid, although they may tend to be "not very business savvy". A lot of people don't mind working for free for a good cause. But I don't think many people like to work for free, just so somebody else can make an extra buck. No quarrel with the company making a great profit and the CEO getting a fat bonus. But the individual contributors should be rewarded in tandem with the impact of their contributions.

@karelholl2568

9y↑178

This is really a great short movie.
I have a company and in my factory there was always a big mess. That's mostly because i am really chaotic and you can see that in the way I organize things. So I asked one of my employees what he would change if my company was his. And he had a lot of ideas. So I told him to do what ever he wanted to do. And he couldn't believe me. So the first days he called me twice a day to ask permission for an idea. But I didn't even listen, I told him just to do it. Now my factory starts to get better organized then ever before. This man is more enthousiastic and motivated and working harder than ever before. And I can concentrate me more on my bussiness and not about where to store all my stuff.

@jonathanbrauns1520

9y↑51

I love what you did with this employee. No sophisticated, philosophical stuff, just plain and simple practical empowerment. According to Steven Covey, you liberate a person to think, and you bring out the best in them. Well done - your business will reap the rewards, you will be happy and your employee will be fulfilled.

@TheRealBlueSwan

7y↑5

That is good management!

@hendygeek

6y↑4

Did you pay him well? It'd be unfair to give him more responsibility without giving more reward.

@ComradeGrimmGames

6y↑6

Hendy Irawan, I do hope that was tongue-in-cheek, given the content of the video. ;)

@hendygeek

6y↑4

Grimmy Grimm Not really. The video says that money isn't the only reward. While giving an employee more freedom is its own reward, given the extra responsibility it's only fair there's additional monetary reward.

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@4867503

10y↑1.2K

how big is this freaking board?

@WizmotionsExplainerVideos

10y↑63

Hey Kyle, these videos are called whiteboard animation videos, Drawings are 100% custom but the hand is computerized.

@52centameters

10y↑28

Spread Sheet►→As big as the universe.

@looppp

7y↑31

I don't think these specific videos are animated. You can see the hand move naturally. Animated whiteboard videos are much more obvious - you should know since you actually share/create animated whiteboard videos..

@mr2australia

7y↑7

They used a Surface Hub, which has an infinite whiteboard.

@sergiojardon6725

6y↑1

please elaborate!!

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@isabellamiguel9000

4y↑14

Our motivations to do things are very interesting and challenging at the same time. Many people have different ways of acting towards incentives given at an organization. Motivation is what makes us understand the importance of achieving a goal or a dream. Money is always a good motivator, since many people think that paying their employees a good salary will make them be more focused at work, not having to worry about money issues. There are three important factors mentioned in this video that lead to better performance and satisfaction : autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Autonomy is when people want to be self-directed. This can bring good engagement for a work environment. Mastery is about always trying to become better at something. These are the main factors that lead to better performance and satisfaction in the workplace. On the other hand, we have a motive which is a predominant purpose. A good example could be that companies always need new talent, and that is why they become so successful. New talent brings new ideas, new strategies and new ways of thinking. In conclusion, straightforward tasks work with the reward scheme.But when we have more intellectual and creative thinking tasks, motivators do not work. Furthermore, if we start treating people in a nice way, organizations and work life will flourish and evolve.

@lisbethcorbera1682

3y↑3

This video came to me as a shock, learning the paradox that exists between the motivating factors in people. On one side people are motivated by a reward system however that only applies to manual labor and once a barrier of cognitive ability is crossed, the reward system becomes damaging both to the individual and the company. This is why studies like these are incredibly informative and allow us to dig deeper to the generalizations we make in any profession. Business, specifically, requires the study of the human brain to effectively give value back to the world. It is important to put together a successful team so the company produces better results. The way a business is run, why the business is running, and how it will continue to run is all dependent on the people working for the company. If we understand people at a deeper level, we can understand both our employees and our customers better. It’s when we understand your employees where business leaders can accommodate work methods to each individual and use their skill to the maximunimum. This would be the ideal situation, as the video explained, people are also motivated to master their skills. Therefore if each individual is given tasks that are tailored to their psychology and skill they can further master that skill and be an even better asset to the company as well as society.

@Scerab

10y↑5

my hand would be burning after this much straight writing/drawing...

@KnightsTemplarChurch

10y

Thank you for sharing your wisdom, I figured this out when I was about 8 years old. And have become a great salesman and innovator. I was able to work for myself for 20 years and just studied everything because I wasn't being forced to. I really couldn't understand why I would learn something and try to help someone else by showing them, "hey look at this it will be good for you". People want to do what they want to do, no matter how much you want to help someone they first got to want what it is you want to help them with. That is possible, but you must frame them once you know what they want and what the need, then don't judge them, but help them see what it is they need and help them get it. Thank you for making this video it is AWESOME! God Bless you.

@iCathryn

4y↑2

I love this so much. I saw this a while ago and could not find it, but so happy to find it again! Thank you so much for doing this animation -- love it!!! Money is only the starting point for employee motivation. I don't know about other industries, but I know in tech that even when a person is well paid, they can still feel uninspired for a variety of reasons. Thank you to Dan Pink and RSA for doing this! :)

@raffshorizonfilms4394

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRU34qJlq1w&t=2s&ab_channel=MrMovie

@karenwarr5486

10y↑5

Finally, a video with you can do and here's how that is so awesome and makes perfect sense. People are so into themselves with a position they don't pay attention to anyone else that are lower rung. These lower rung folks was once them fighting to give those great ideas! One day of allowing mass free thinking and sharing

ting future

business owners etc.

@imalwaysVIP

6y↑69

This video is so informative and I've watched it in a lot of my college courses but it's going so fast and my brain is trying to comprehend everything but I literally can't keep up lol

@josephsimmons1232

2y↑6

You can use YouTube controls to slow it down.
Now I just have to find a way to send this piece of advice back in time 3 years ...

@gabriellachavez7618

@@josephsimmons1232 HAHA

@alessandro-affinito

You can find the original speech at Ted "The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink "

@Tapecutter59

7y↑2

"I already have my prize. It's the joy of finding things out, the kick in the discovery, and the observation that other people use it. I don't want anything else, I don't need anything else" - Richard Feynman's reaction to winning the Nobel prize for physics.

@esmeraldasevilla1259

3y↑2

I really like the video because it explains what really motivates us. The video describes how when tasks require conceptual and creative thinking, monetary does not motivate the people to perform better. It first tells how if you do not pay people enough, they won't be motivated. However, it then talks about another paradox: the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table. In order words paying people enough, so they're not thinking about the money but the work. Here we learned that they are three factors that led to better performance and personal satisfaction. The first factor is autonomy which is our desire to be self-directed, direct our own lives. It explained that if you want engagement in the workforce as people are doing more sophisticated things, self-direction is better. So one day of autonomy in a workplace can produce something that had never emerged before. The second factor is mastery which is the urge to get better at stuff. Lastly, the last factor is purpose which is something that inspires and motivates a person. This is where a person wants to contribute to the world to make it a better place with the product that is being created and focuses on this purpose and not on the profit gained from creating the product.

@cdmunoz

9y↑5

This is great!! It's a MUST SEE for every person, no matter her/his age ... Maximizing Purpose!!
Thnks Camilo Aguilar

@bslay4r

5y↑4

In order to gather more intrinsic motivation we need to balance the following things:
1. competence motivation vs fear of failure
2. performance motivation vs anxiety
3. balance in interest, discovery and inductive learning (your own activity to understand a problem) vs extrinsic reward
4. self-realization vs Identity diffusion (identity-confusion)

Anxiety is the biggest enemy of intrinsic motivation, when you have to do things vs when you enjoy doing things. That's why those with the largest rewards performed the worst.
Anxiety causes difficulty in handling information and abstraction and weakens intellectual functions.

@nanettefabros6237

9y↑2

Now I am older and finding out I might have dyslexia.. this is just GREAT! Thanks RSA! So helpful to focus :)

@charlesmomeny

10y↑2

I agree, very interesting way to present this material. I've actually had this video reccomended to me multiple times over the past years and never failed to see a little something more each time I watch it.

@MrEjidorie

10y↑10

Paradox of human natures is very interesting. It`s crucial for managers to motivate their subordinates to work harder in order to gain higher earnings. However, incentives such as bonus don`t always work if it comes to cognitive and creative jobs. According to Maslow`s hierarchy of needs, self-actualization is the most powerful desire which is deeply seated in our minds. If managers can successfully encourage our desire for self-actualization, corporations can create earn greater benefits, and contribute the society.

@mousavi128

10y↑5

That was one of the most useful 10 minutes in my entire life

@MrMember12

10y↑1

Oh man, I was in a huge assignment in cryptography and research led me here (RSA). Now I don't think I can make it without watching all your vids overnight!

@ahnrho

8y↑2

An example of how modern software companies -- from new small startups to large tech giants -- make use of the 3 motivations is by giving coders/developers free time for personal projects. Tends to work well in fostering a positive company-employee relationship, and even fosters creative ideas that add value to the company, itself.

That's something I really love seeing: Win-win situation for both parties, go figure =). Also, interesting video content with nice animation.

@PaulFranklin45

2y↑4

12 years later & still 100% relevant.

@worklifedevelopment5234

8y↑15

Daniel Pink's lecture to the RSA should be compulsory viewing for everyone interested in what makes us tick. His research into motivation gives great credence to the theories of geniuses like Abraham Maslow and many others who identify that Purpose, Autonomy and Mastery are essential ingredients for a fulfilling work and home life.

@aaalayna

7y↑1

YES! This was wonderfully eye opening. makes complete sense and validates a lot of things i already felt. Thanks RSA!

@tonybaloneynelson

10y↑1

Great presentation of culture and leadership in organisations. This adds depth to any leader needing to develop their management skills and for those managers needing to develop leadership.

@seancrumlish10

9y↑9

I love these animations, and because I love watching them I've remembered this one when writing my dissertation. Coming back to it's really helped my work and I hope I see more of them in the future. :)

@theshatteredending

10y↑9

What I like about these videos is that it reminds me of a sarcastic person asking" what? Do I need to draw it out for you ?" Yes. Yes you do!

@AirisDamon

What a refreshing outlook on a tired and often mismanaged subject.

@dafeac

10y↑14

¡PLEASE WE NEED THIS IN ALL LANGUAGES! I need it in spanish to show it to my boss

@elijahspanheimer293

NO RAISE 4 U

@2007249

8y↑31

watched this on my moms recomendation. thanks mom

@TVRao140346

10y↑3

Excellent piece. For several years we have maintained that most people who reached respectable levels in their service do not work for money any more. They work for challenge and service. Long ago many theorists have postulated the limits of monetary incentives. In fact it is our duty to make people enjoy work than the consequences of it in terms of money. The fun in life is gone when you assume people work for money classify them and create a caste system of performers using normal curves and incentives. In 1975 itself when we designed the HRD system in L&T Udai Pareek and I designed a system that delinked appraisal ratings given by seniors from incentives. In recent years even Chris Argyris argues that it is extrinsic motivation that devalued people and treated them as though they work only for money. When you focus on intrinsic motivation you have a system that provides autonomy, purpose and many other things as outlined in this video.

@vt222111

10y

Very insightful!! thank you !

@Chawlaajoy

10y↑1

How true. When I get incentivised with money for doing good work, it assumes I have a price for my commitment and passion... When I am trusted with autonomy and freedom I am elevated and it places a larger onus on me to raise my thoughts and work to a greater level.

@GernsVidPicks

8y↑1

Great video and it explains to me why I hate my job so much and have no motivation. I clearly have no choice but to leave and find a new job.

@FrrrrrOshs

I just love this. Keep coming back to it. Also, when you have teens you realize he's right - reward and punishment does not motivate behaviour as others say. It works pretty well for infants and toddlers, and then the human brain starts thinking for itself in adolescence and all hell breaks loose.

@pennygreenler4351

2y↑1

doesn't even work then! toddlers thrive on self-direction and mastery....ever watch a 15 month old do the same task over and over? Discipline should be based on love and logic not reward and punishment.

@growlandroll

10y↑3

08:08 It gives me goosebumps, that mix of anger and "OPEN your damn eyes!!"

@ukrainiantym

7y↑3

Dan Pink. The study of motivation. That's him narrating.

Watch his TED talk. It's great!

@destinwhitaker5763

4y↑2

I believe this video makes sense, sometimes in life we tend to complicate things that are easy. Also the point made about money and the amount of effort the person puts in was great. Being a young upcoming entrepreneur this was great overall information to have.

@ethanthebrave2895

2y↑1

This is still one of my favourite videos on youtube.

@jpete3027666

10y↑17

No big surprise here, where I work we have our most productive and enjoyable days when management is off site at meetings and not breathing down our necks.

@RoseEvansworkstresstosuccess

8y↑22

#Motivation
PURPOSE-driven rather than PROFIT-driven.

@thandazilekundla1726

3y↑1

Amazing, this ideology left me thinking and reflecting about my life's journey, my motivations and how best I may motivate my colleagues and teachers I work with to do more voluntarily.

@LearnEnglishESL

Glad to see motive & purpose originates in the spirit as well as the material.
"In the conduct of life, man is actuated by two main motives: ‘The Hope for Reward’ and ‘The Fear of Punishment’." - Abdu'l-Bahá, Baha'i Faith, Paris Talks

@ninafernandez2684

3y↑8

I found this video to be very interesting because it speaks a message. The message is all about the truth behind what really motivates us as humans in the workplace. The three factors that hold the biggest influence on learning about your own employee’s motivations are autonomy, mastery, and purpose. These three factors I find quite interesting because it reflects on humans in a way that others wouldn’t think we are not as endlessly manipulable and predictable as you would think. It also reflects Maslow’s “self-actualization” level in his hierarchy of needs he created because it allows people to worry about things like autonomy, mastery, and purpose rather than things like money. Beginning with autonomy, this is our desire to be self-directed and how would we be in control of that? By self-directing yourself in the most appropriate direction needed to reach the point of mastery. Mastery is the urge to get better at stuff, and then finally comes purpose. Seeing how others work together for a purpose, other than lets say to make profit, makes things so much more awesome.

@Maurovers

8y↑3

That is actually surprisingly interesting.
Thank you, it helped me.

@angiemycine6509

3y↑2

My summary from this video:

We tend to think that if we give enough external motivation then performance will increase, but really, when there is a decent amount of external motivation, intrinsic motivation is more important.

3 factors in particular, lead to better performance AND personal satisfaction:
1. Autonomy, allowing people to freely navigate what they should do.
2. Mastery, people are often motivated to become better at something.
3. Purpose, people find motivation when they sense a purpose in what they are doing.

@jenihinton6135

3y↑2

Funny we have to watch this video for PD and yet we won’t be implementing any of it’s ideas because it has to start at the top. Love the video!

@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017

9y↑7

I've seen this artist (or someone that draws in a very similar style) 'animate' a number of talks and advertisements, and I'm curious where this presentation method came from. It is fun and seems to be really effective to maintain an audience's attention, despite seeming a little juvenile. Anyone know where it came from?

@StephanieL180

9y↑32

I wish more economists would be honest when it comes to the myths about the profit motive.

@16semiquavers

3y↑1

I know! And maybe admit socialism is on to something lol

@johnyoest4467

This Dan Pink video is required viewing for my class on Leadership & Organization at The Catholic University of America

@evanprendergast7054

3y↑1

This video discusses the importance of reward, and the video was particularly interesting for me because it essentially refutes information that I initially held to be true. The video discusses reward via a case study where employees were given three levels of rewards based on their performance. In many different variations of the experiment, it was concluded that people who ended up with the largest reward had the worse performance. This makes no sense, so I thought, but the more and more I watched, the more and more it made sense. Reward schemes are effective when given a simple and straightforward task, but as soon as critical thinking and innovation is involved, it doesn't have the same effect. It is far more effective for a company to make their stated purpose clear within the company, while also making their purpose important to all of the employees, so they have a reason to want to defend the purpose when they come to work every day. If a companies purpose is stated to be clear and concise, and everyone knows what they are working toward, then it makes coming to work easier. People can then learn and practice self-direction, which leads to many ideas and fixes that may not have been possible otherwise. The video states, if you want engagement, you must allow self-direction. This actually makes sense for me, if I am an employee for a company and I understand my tasks and the goal of the company, wouldn't it be better for me to complete my work and tasks under my own direction and thinking process? By doing this, many new ideas and innovations may arise, and better work is done as a result. Money is a key motivator, but if you give people enough money where they don't even think about money, they think about their purpose and their work. Factors of autonomy and mastery play a role in this notion, people act better under self-direction, and people want to be better at stuff because it's satisfying and more fun (mastery).

@SonyasDavid

8y↑74

Funny that the animator wrote "destructive" when the narrator said "disruptive". :)

@AdamPiper

7y↑63

how did they not zoom out and show the whole thing

@FrankQC100

4y↑1

cauz this is not paper and a real pen :)

@elizardnguyen

10y

Thank you for breaking this down and making it much easier to understand!

@adelinedygert5106

3y↑2

This video about motivation is really insightful for managers because it shows how to best motivate their subordinates. Before watching this video, I assumed that a higher monetary incentive would lead to higher motivation and performance. I was very surprised to learn that this motivation technique does not work if the manager is expecting their workers to do tasks that are above a rudimentary cognitive level. The video shows that the best way to motivate people is to give them autonomy. When managers allow their employees to do what they want and how they want to do it, employees will become extremely self-motivated. This concept ties back to the Catholic Social Teaching of subsidiarity, which is the teaching that decisions in an organization should be made at the lowest appropriate level. This method improves the manager's life and the employee's life. Another important method to motivate employees is to set a clear vision and mission for the organization. Employees will be more motivated to do a good job if they feel like their work is making a difference. This video also calls attention to the fact that employees need to have some internal motivation to become masters at what they are doing.

@AntonBrazhnyk

10y↑3

A lot of software at Apache project is done at those paying jobs and the companies pay for it. There is slightly different business model - free testing by the users from the whole world, no obligations for bugs (e.g. no SLAs), ideas from talented people for free. They make pretty good money out of it.
Another business model there - professional services for money. OSS is becoming increasingly complex and hard to setup and deploy correctly.
I'm not saying you guys are wrong, I do support your point, but it's just OSS part is not that simple.

@Ramix09

9y↑6

9:47 I think he says "be disruptive" not "be destructive"

@annegothong

So true, this is why I love going to work! I work at a mobile game studio called Roadhouse Interactive in BC. They pay us enough and give us autonomy for self-directed work.

@businessmotivation9651

Amazing! This is one of the main distinctions between innovate and financially successful companies and those that are struggling to retain their employees.

@jonasb.7081

8y↑16

well, this was rather ...enlightening

@xFormational

8y↑11

Being the head honcho of a big corporation while following this logic must be outstanding. You're paying people less, getting better results, all while you're taking home even more of the pie for yourself.

@shaunryan9810

8y↑4

+Daniel It doesn't say pay people less. It says take the money off the table by paying them well. For high skilled tasks you have to pay for skill. I think the argument is that basically pay bonus structures don't work to provide more motivation (like what you see in a lot financial institutions). Just pay the salary - 1 monthly payment that is high enough so it doesn't become an issue. Then you just provide autonomy, a common purpose and encourage mastery - and they commit all their skillful energy towards that purpose. This all comes down to the fact we fundamentally want to make a difference. We want our lives to mean something. If we can do that with skills you've spent your whole life building then it gives you purpose and you no longer care about material things. However, only if you're paid enough in the first place. Nobody cares about a purpose that makes you poor. I resonate with this sentiment - I don't care how much I get paid as long as it covers the mortgage, the occasional holiday, the cost of living and it's not taking the piss. I don't care about having the most luxury car or house. Why? because it's an empty purpose and they don't add anything to my life.

@gideonwaxfarb

I think a hybrid approach is best, where everyone is guaranteed at least enough to survive on. And by that, I basically mean a room with a bed, shower, toilet, and kitchen. This would be optional, BUT if you choose to collect, then you HAVE to do whatever work that the system requires of you, which would probably be non-trivial tasks that the private sector ignores because there's no money to be made. (This would depend on what kind of skills you have, of course. If you have none, then you do shit work.) After your required work is done, you can do whatever the hell you want.

I think this meets the needs of both society and the poorest among us who have to work two jobs just to keep food on the table. I worked my way from poverty to middle class - it involved a lot of 14+ hour days, subsisting on Ramen, and sleeping on the floor. Nobody in a 1st world country like the US should have to endure something like that just to get to a point where they don't have to keep themselves awake at night worried about getting sick or having a flat tire. All because their father was a waste of space and their mother was an abusive alcoholic, and so they didn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of coming out of high school.

@Kullyization

10y

one of the BEST videos on youtube.. thank you!!

@Byenia

10y

Excellent talk! Autonomy, mastery, and a sense of purpose (involving contribution) -- precisely.

@ascendantmadness347

8y↑190

If we end the hierarchy of means and the supply-side model of business, we will free humanity from the paradigm of fight-or-flight economics and realize progress like we have never imagined. We don't need jobs, we need common interests.

@texasarcane7894

8y↑11

I heard this one before. It was a book written during the Indian Wars in the 1800s by a man who had never held a day job in his life and fathered a half dozen bastards by maids he couldn't feed. His beard had more food scraps than a crows nest and his own best friend complained the smell around him was so bad you had to hold your breath when you were talking to him. His name was Karl Marx. Karl described it as "self-directed," but others just called him a "bum" who liked to rape chambermaids.

@ascendantmadness347

8y↑42

In the interest of educating anyone else who might read this thread, I'll feed this troll. You've been brainwashed and indoctrinated into the mindset of a slave. Marx wasn't even the originator of the ideas he wrote about, he simply conglomerated socialist ideologies prevalent in his day. He's used as a boogeyman because his name is memorable and capitalist despots of the 20th century (such as Lenin and Stalin) committed terrible acts under the guise of populist movements.
In fact, no state has ever been socialist nor communist, no matter what the political leaders called their party. Both of those paradigms require first and foremost that the control of production be the result of the democratic process of those who actually perform labor. No nation has ever used such a model. Russia and China have always been state capitalist. They still have hierarchy, use money, trade internationally and control of resources and production remains in the hands of an elite class that hold wealth which stays in families. Government control of production is not socialism.

That said, removal of hierarchy actually precludes central control entirely. There is no government necessary in a technocratic conservationist society. We have the means to provide for every human need for thousands of years if we stop wasting life on supply-side, consumer market chains. Capitalism is just another pyramid scheme.

@texasarcane7894

8y↑7

Ascendant Madness Another secular utopia. I am sure yours won't end in rivers of blood like all those others throughout history. From that crooked timber no straight thing can be made sir.

@ascendantmadness347

8y↑22

Technocratic conservationism doesn't involve blood nor battle because there are no leaders nor hierarchy and the only structure it requires is the freedom of information inherent in the internet. The transition can come to fruition through simple things like community gardens. Free people from the need to struggle to put food on the table and we could go miles toward alleviating poverty and hierarchy.

The most twisted tree imaginable is rooted in the servant/master paradigm inherent in capital markets. It has failed to produce favorable outcomes for humanity for millennia, yet people who refuse to learn, cling to it because they take pride in being subjugated to the rich man. Cooperation is always superior to competition.

@texasarcane7894

8y↑1

Ascendant Madness Tell the truth - you've never been punched in the face as an adult, have you?

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@estrayer1

10y↑3

So my spending endless unpaid hours adding, changing, and searching for new and exciting material (such as this) for my intro to sociology classes makes sense after all?

@beecepticon

4y↑6

Cual universidad? jajajajaj el Sena papi el Sena.

@ahmadbasmaji

4y↑1

Me too its awful

@jimbo6519

I came back 2 years after I first watched this video (aged 14 then)

My understanding of the subject matter has grown significantly from then to now

@petramorse4427

9y↑5

As great as this is or there any sources for this? If so can I see them?

@mcarcasson

9y↑9

+Czeslaw Morse - His book is called Drive. Has plenty of sources. http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805

@petramorse4427

9y↑4

thanks very much!

@barbaraforgoodness

Brilliant! What a delight to see. And the message is still needed. Badly.

@getsuha

2y↑1

just amazing...I never thought I will find what I believed during my whole life...

@WeddingDJBusiness

9y↑6

I would think most of are motivated by emotions before money especially when buying. That's why when selling, smart companies like Apple appeal to our desires of fun enjoyment etc. Leaders empower peoples emotions

@michaelmccarty806

5y↑3

In the infamous words of Jerry McGuire, "Show me da money"!!!

@danieltokarev477

5y↑2

It is true that motivation usually appears in houses and workplaces because there have tasks that you need to complete, so it forces you to be motivated.
Also, the motivation can be anything. It depends on your culture, ethic, moral, structure of your life and other since it influences you to make decisions. I believe that if the motivation does not exist today, then we would not have successful goals. It is the key for us to keep commitment to complete your goals. I truly believe that money does not keep us motivating. Normally, you have goals, which make you to motivate to success. To be clarified, you want to motivate for the money, then you should live with the money without spending. That is silly to motivate for the money or the money makes us motivating.

@bluecrusader62

2y↑2

What a great lesson. I can so relate to this in my organisation

@GeoffonTour

10y↑8

That yeti has some awesome pen skills

@polobreak3249

8y↑9

Did they ever figure out why people perform the worst when they get paid a lot for intellectual types of tasks? Is it just because more there's more pressure to perform better? It's not like getting paid more is depriving their autonomy, mastery or purpose.

@jacobshirley3457

It's like kids getting paid to play with their toys. Kids will lose interest quickly, despite enjoying it before.

@SunshineInWoods

9y↑1

As you can see in the conference "Pursuing Happiness: what works and why", autonomy, mastery and purpose are also the driving forces to activities that lead to long-term happiness.

@eamonlonergan9864

10y↑1

Great insight, similar to the job characteristics theory proposed by Hackman & Oldham and the Job Enrichment theory from Herzberg.

@AnnoyedDragon

10y↑9

@billyfox1092

4y↑7

You can really see this during the lockdown: although most people are still being paid due to the Government's furlough scheme, the vast, vast majority of people to whom I've spoken and whom I've seen on the news state adamantly that they're desperate to get back to work. They are bored and simply desire for purpose and the societal improvement that they provide.

@billyfox1092

4y↑1

@strike6tutorials Yeah, people would go completely bankrupt if they didn't. There would be absolute poverty across the nation and companies would have to fire employees due to a lack of fund, causing unemployment to skyrocket. Economic growth would collapse, so if the Government hadn't provided the relief of the furlough, it wouldn't have been great. Really, you can picture it as basically pretty similar to the dole because people are out of work and receiving welfare benefits as a consequence. The dole's pretty standard and so should this be. (They only paid for 80% of their wages by the way.) It's not their fault and and as I said, many of them would have actually liked to have been working. In order to mitigate the economic effects of coronavirus, this was critical.