The Surprising Truth About Motivation with Daniel Pink
The Mindvalley Podcast
Mindvalley
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Are you and your employees happy at work? In this pertinent interview, New York Times bestselling author and behavioral science specialist Daniel Pink shares the leading research behind motivation and how we can use this to create a thriving work culture. He reveals the single biggest day-to-day motivator in our current workplace and the two most important factors in job satisfaction. If you want to create — or work — in a thriving workplace, this is not an episode you’ll want to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation. |
| 0:05.0 | You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and |
| 0:09.2 | thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, |
| 0:15.6 | spirit and work. |
| 0:17.6 | Hi everyone, welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | So if you're watching this on YouTube, you're getting a behind the scenes view of me with Daniel |
| 0:24.5 | Pink. And if you're listening to this on a regular podcast app, let me tell you what you're |
| 0:29.2 | going to experience in this episode. So Daniel Pink is the author of six provocative best-selling books |
| 0:34.4 | about business, work and behavior. Four of his books are New York Times |
| 0:39.7 | best-sellers. His most recent book is When, the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. That book was released |
| 0:47.6 | a year ago and get this, tomorrow the paperback edition is going to be released. |
| 0:52.6 | Go check it out. |
| 0:53.6 | It's called When. |
| 0:54.6 | And if you check it out on Amazon today, you will see that it has already hit the Amazon |
| 0:58.8 | Sharps as one of the most sold books of 2018. Now Daniel's other books are to sell is human the surprising truth about moving others |
| 1:07.4 | drive the surprising truth about what motivates us the adventures of |
| 1:12.4 | Johnny Banco the last career guide you'll ever |
| 1:14.9 | need, and several more. |
| 1:17.1 | He has sold 3 million copies. |
| 1:19.6 | He was the host and co-executive producer of crowd control on the NGO channel which was a TV |
| 1:25.9 | series about human behavior. He has been on PBS ABC CNN a contributing |
| 1:31.0 | editor at Fast Company and Wired and for the last six years the |
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