[Video] Daniel Pink on the Surprising Science of Motivation

[Daniel E.]

YouTube - Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation

 

[Daniel E.]

YouTube - Nora Young interviews Daniel Pink

For the full, 26-minute interview:
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2010/04/full-interview-daniel-pink-on-motivation-3-0/

 

[Daniel E.]

A pre-interview comment:

Do social scientists read broadly and build upon each other's work? I haven't yet read Daniel Pink's book, so maybe he does this, but the radio coverage of his view of human "drives" makes me wonder if he's thought about and tried to build upon other work in this area, for example the somewhat "unflashy" yet evidence-based and insightful work of Steven Reiss in his books Who Am I: The 16 Basic Desires That Motivate Our Behavior and Define Our Personality, NY:Tarcher/Putnam (2000) and The Normal Personality: A New Way of Thinking About People, Cambridge University Press (2008) -- or even more broadly, the practical views of scholars in related disciplines like Jungian Robert Moore's 1991 King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Archetypes of the Mature Masculine.

I'm always surprised how much social scientists ignore each other's work. Moore's rich insights in particular seem to draw a blank, even from other Jungians. Too much self-absorption? Where is the integrated edifice of social science?

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