Archive for June, 2010

Taco Tuesday

Number of tables taken over: 3
Number of tacos consumed: 2
Number of hours it took to get back home: 1.5
Number of Stuy grads in the group: 2 (incl. M)

On what motivates us

“But what we’ve forgotten—and what the science shows—is that we also have a third drive. We do things because they’re interesting, because they’re engaging, because they’re the right things to do, because they contribute to the world. The problem is that, especially in our organizations, we stop at that second drive. We think the only reason people do productive things is to snag a carrot or avoid a stick. But that’s just not true. Our third drive—our intrinsic motivation—can be even more powerful.” — Daniel Pink, “Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution”