Daniel Pink-Blog3

My take aways from this video is that to get better performance from workers we need them to make an emotional connection with the work they do. The motivation that matters is intrinsic motivation (a kind of motivation that the only incentive is a sense of accomplishment and the title of having done it). I also took away that if you do something just to say you have done, you accomplish more. The speakers effective speaking technique is anecdotes. He also uses a different platform for telling what matters to him; that is the platform of a lawyer presenting a case to a jury. This changes everything up and keeps the audience from going to sleep from the same old TED talks. His presentation style is that he uses statistics and case studies to present his case to the audience. This is important because it validates what he is saying and confirms any doubts the audience might have.

What matters in this video, as it relates to me, is that it is important to motivate yourself intrinsically. Your mind is clouded when you are given an external incentive and therefore your ability to do work is clouded. What matters, as it relates to education it is screaming for a reform in the way students do work. Pink is trying to tell us that if can find a motivation within ourselves, we can do anything. What matters, as it relates to the world, is that the old method of work for money is outdated and virtually useless. We achieve more as a society when we do something that we want to do; we achieve more when we motivate ourselves.