Science of motivation
I came across an interesting video about Dan Pink’s talk about Science of motivation on TED.com. It’s really giving an insight that reward system will not work if creative thinking is required to do work. The reward somehow will make our mind focus thus eliminate options/possibilities/creativity.
Then the question is, what will work? What can motivate and trigger creativity?
He mention three points:
- Autonomy: The urge to direct our own lives.
- Mastery: The desire to get better at something that matters.
- Purpose: The yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.
He also gave example for autonomy, Google! It’s been famous that Google let their staffs to do what they want to do in 20% of their working hours. And the result is, many of great Google’s apps were born during these 20% times. Too bad he didn’t explain more for the other two points. Maybe this is just a little preview on his coming book in Dec 2009. I would love to read and know more!
Enjoy the video. 
\sugiggs
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TED talks emang bagus2 pembicaranya. Dari 3 poin itu, mana yg udah km lakukan ?
Embed youtube-nya salah coding tu kayak’e..
@Jiewa: Our company encourages us (but failed) to spend some time to do research.
Since I’m not business owner, I haven’t done those things. It’s pretty hard to implement, though. But it’s a good to know that reward system only works for labor work.