("Pink")
Daniel Pink shows through his research in the powers of motivation the creative jobs necessary for the arrival of the conceptual age, a new approach in motivation is needed for the work place. Instead of the stuck-in-the-mud, left-brained approach to a reward system, Pink describes the fact that people in nearly all situations perform better when convince to work by an intrinsic motivator. According to ChangingMinds.org an intrinsic motivator is, “…when motivated by internal factors, as opposed to the external drivers of extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation drives one to do things just for the fun of it, or because they believe it is a good or right thing to do” ("Intrinsic").
I can see this kind of force in my life when I find a topic that truly interests me. For example, the Million Dollar Project of fifth grade where I decided what I was going to do if given one million dollars. For my project I decided that was going to take a week long vacation in the Greek Isles and parade around in a 30 foot long hummer stretch. Part way through the project, I discovered a few variables that would make this project much more difficult. One was the exchange rate of dollars to Euros in 2007. A second problem that I discovered was that Hummers use a lot enormous amounts of diesel gasoline, which at the time was priced at about $4.00 per gallon. The issue with this is that I had to figure out a ballpark estimate value for how far I would be driven around, how much to pay the driver, convert dollars to Euros and gallons to liters in order to buy the gas, and finally tip the driver. After this week of data crunching, the rest of the project was rather straight forward. And to expect this from a 5th grader? Obviously, my teacher had high expectations for my class, but that kind of calculations should be reserved for AAA agents.
Some people would disagree with Dan Pink’s message of impending left-brained “doom”, but what people cannot dispute is his gift for public speaking. While Dan Pink speaks, he uses crescendos, and decrescendos to emphasize certain key points. If this doesn’t seem true, use his video and skip to the part where he says, “Is this some kind of touchy feely socialist conspiracy going on here? No. These are economists from MIT, from Carnegie Mellon, from the University of Chicago. And do you know who sponsored this research? The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. That's the American experience.” It shows a clear change in his emotion because he is connected to this topic and yearns for everybody to understand it as he does. Dan Pink presents his ted talk in a certain way that in both inviting and educational. Instead of using a standard expository essay format, he brings points up as they come along in his story of the changing world. In other words, there is no leading thesis that shows what his talk is going to be about before he gets to explain his idea.
In conjunction with A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink’s TED Talk emphasizes his warning that the world is changing and every one better hop on the “train” or get left behind. When I begin to work on my first career in ten years or so, Dan Pink’s idea about a new form of management will be beneficial to me so I can work efficiently with others in a more competitive business market.
Works Cited
Pink, Daniel. "Dan Pink on the Surprising Science of Motivation | Video on TED.com." TED: Ideas worth Spreading. Aug. 2009. Web. 19 Apr. 2011. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_pink_on_motivation.html.
"Intrinsic Motivation." Changing Minds and Persuasion -- How We Change What Others Think, Believe, Feel and Do. Web. 19 Apr. 2011. <http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/intrinsic_motivation.htm>.
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