A New Type of Motivation
Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Eddie Pinero
4.9 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
What motivates you?
In the book Drive, by Daniel Pink, he mentions a new type of motivation, backed by ample scientific research, yet frequently overlooked on both the business and personal levels. It is our greatest source of opportunity and still, we unknowingly walk right by it.
This new type of motivation is what he refers to as intrinsic motivation. It is action, not guided but external rewards, but driven by flow, curiosity and interest. In other words, the activity is the reward. It's what pushed the Wright brothers to pursue flight, Edison to create the lightbulb and Picasso to share his gifts with the world; it was the journey, not the destination.
In this episode, I take a look at how we might incorporate intrinsic motivation into our own lives in a world driven by externalities. The answer is an important one, as it just may be the gateway to extraordinary.
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| 0:58.3 | Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero. In this episode, we're going to look at a new |
| 1:03.8 | type of motivation. Ask ourselves how we're incentivizing our action and whether we may or may not be leaving our greatest weapon on the |
| 1:13.0 | table. |
| 1:22.9 | So let's talk a little bit about flow today. |
| 1:31.4 | The, as Daniel Pink says in his book, drive the new type of motivation, intrinsic motivation. Like so many concepts, right, this is, he talks about it |
| 1:39.4 | in the realm of business. But after all, businesses are just people. And this comes all the way down to the |
| 1:47.3 | personal level as well. It's a very important concept. So I'm going to give you a quick kind of 101, |
| 1:52.9 | right? He talks about three different types of motivation. The first one, survival, right? The need to |
| 1:58.9 | sleep, eat, reproduce, push the species along, survive. |
| 2:04.1 | Okay, and we're not going to talk much about 1.0. We're going to talk about the other two. |
| 2:08.6 | 2.0, the carrot and the stick, reward and punishment. You do something great, you get a reward, |
| 2:13.6 | you do something bad, you get punished. If you walk into any company in the world now, I mean, it's the most prominent idea structure. |
| 2:21.9 | It's the same, you know, it guides a lot of our actions on the individual level as well, right? |
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