Author Daniel H. Pink wrote a book about motivation and how it plays a big part in people’s lives called Drive. In Pink’s argument he assumes that carrots and sticks don’t work anymore; we have the innate psychological need for autonomy, mastery and purpose (Motivation 3.0). I feel like in my life motivation plays a huge role, to some people all they need is motivation to help them get through things, for others they just want to feel motivation. Academically I think Motivation 3.0 strategically helps me in my education in order to reach my future career.
In chapter 1 of Drive, Pink acknowledges the fact that Motivation 2.0 has three incompatibility problems with our modern world; how we organize what we do, how we think about what we do, and how we do what we do. “It forces people to devise workarounds to bypass its flaws.” (Pink 19) Basically carrots and sticks don’t work anymore, in order to get …show more content…
“Autonomous motivation involves behaving with a full sense of violation and choice, whereas controlled motivation involves behaving with the experience of pressure and demand toward specific outcomes that comes from forces perceived to be external to the self.” (Pink 88) I see autonomy playing a huge part in my education because no one is going to tell me or force me to do it, I have to encourage myself to do it. Autonomy is a good way to make good use of time. “For them it’s all about craftsmanship. They need a lot of autonomy.” (Pink 85) We can’t give a person a task and expect them to complete it by a certain time, we have to let them do it whenever they want so they won’t feel pressured doing it and we can get the full results from it by giving them unlimited amount of time. Yes, I plan on changing my predominant operating system by doing more tasks on my own, not only to learn about it but to learn more about it and things related to