What are your take-aways from this video?
I learned I have a lot of internal motivation, which makes be come to believe that I am more independent than those who always need someone "holding a carrot in front of their nose and threatening with a stick behind them". I personally don't always need someone giving me incentives and threats. All three Ted Talks that I have watched, have opened my eyes to something I gave zero thought before. The video particularly makes me wonder how I am motivated? How those around me are motivated? It makes me question businesses and their regard to motivation. How can they be fixed, to become more productive, and loose less jobs overseas or to robotic machinery? I learned that giving rewards narrows our vision and thinking. We can't think outside the box, if all we are thinking about is the money or gift we receive at the end. Also, I learned about FedEx Days. These are days, specifically in Australia, that a company may give their workers 24 hours to do anything they wanted, besides what they did on a regular daily work basis. I find it amazing that more new inventions and creations are created on this day than any other. Why don't we have these in more companies, more often? Just think about the new heights we could reach if people took business men off of leashes. I think that people are more creative when let free, than told be creative and invent new things. Lastly, I learned that if we incorporate intrinsic motivation into the world, we could fix the "candle problem", improved businesses, and maybe even change the world!!
What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
Daniel Pink's speaking was passionate, powerful, and essentially loud. By loud I don't mean annoying and irritating, I mean powerful and purposeful. He spoke with an intense passion that gets his "case" across to the audience. His strong, powerful voice gets his point across, I got the message loud and clear. He is, and has a very influential attitude and voice.
What is his/her presentation style?
Daniel presented his Ted Talk as what he called a case not a story. He was using real experiments and real evidence to portray his point. Daniel had a slideshow behind him, emphasizing the words, phrases, and results of experiments that he wanted to get express. His slideshow was not too busy, it was straight to the point and purposeful. Mr. Pink also used humor to get his talk started. He began his presentation with a joke about law school, that led him to use real factual ("true fact") information to portray his point. Lastly, he used a lot of real experiences to back-up his topic. I find this admirable, because he isn't making broad assumptions, he is basing it off of true, real, evidence. These are things that you can go look up yourself and see the real results.
What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
This video matters, especially to government and any any business, which really incorporates most people's lives. Personally, from this video I was able to make myself realize that I do have a lot of internal motivation, which Daniel Pink thinks is becoming more necessary than external, incentive motivation. I think that because I have internal motivation I can take myself to new heights, I don't always need someone by my side, and this makes me more independent. As far as education is concerned, this idea of motivation deals greatly with it. If there is a student that grows up only trying when bribed, or incentivized, it's hard to change. Whereas if our world became more internally motivated (children grew up doing right, just because), external motivation wouldn't matter. The student would try their best, for themselves not for the reward. Around the world, there is a mismatch between what science knows about motivation and what business does regarding motivation and it's employees. This needs to be changed if we want to continue to grow as a world.
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