GET IT DONE: How the Science of Motivation Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

The Next Big Idea

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Education, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

University of Chicago professor Ayelet Fishbach has spent the last two decades studying the science of motivation. She has developed a framework for turning idle ambition into forward-moving action. That framework is the subject of her new book, “Get It Done,” which our curators chose as one of the best non-fiction titles of the year. Today, one of those curators, Daniel Pink, chats with Ayelet about sure-fire techniques you can use to achieve your goals. Next Big Idea App: Want to hear Ayelet summarize her new book in just 12 minutes? Download the Next Big Idea app and check out her Book Bite!

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:06.5	I'm Rufus Griskem, and this is the next big idea.
0:10.6	Today, the secret of self-potivation.
0:30.0	Let's go back in time.
0:40.1	It's 1897, and a middle-aged Frenchman named Paul Dumer has just arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam.
0:47.6	As a newly appointed governor-general, Dumer is tasked with making the Southeast Asian
0:51.9	colony look and feel French.
0:55.0	Give it a certain Junaisei Quai.
0:57.2	So he paves wide boulevards and lines them with trees.
1:00.7	He builds neoclassical piles that look tray-parasienne.
1:04.4	And for his p.s. de résistance, he decides to give the people of Hanoi that most French
1:09.7	of modern luxuries.
1:13.2	Indoor plumbing.
1:14.8	To pull this off, Dumer constructs a massive modern sewer system, laying more than 9 miles
1:20.0	of pipe beneath the bustling city.
1:23.1	But there's a problem.
1:24.5	This sewer system, which was meant to be an emblem of European sophistication and engineering
1:28.9	prowess, is soon overrun with rats.
1:32.4	Tens of thousands of them, and those rats carry disease.
1:37.0	Soon people are coming down with a bubonic plague, and rats born in Dumer's gleaming
1:41.4	sewers are to blame.
1:44.0	The French government needs to fix this problem and fix it fast, and in 1902, they devise
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