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The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel Pink
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Recommended by 7 notable people, including David Heinemeier Hansson and Brendon Burchard
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Recommended by 9 sources and appears in Behavioral Psychology, Habit, and Motivational.
From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money—the carrot-and-the-stick approach. That's a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in his transformative new book. The key to high performance and satisfaction is intrinsic, internal motivation: the desire to follow your own interests and understand the benefits in them for you. And Pink has discovered thirty years of…
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Recommended by 9 sources and appears in Behavioral Psychology, Habit, and Motivational.
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