Summary Of Drive By Daniel H. Pink

In his book, Drive, Daniel H. Pink, takes reader on a thought-provoking analytical exploration of motivation. Ultimately, he compares motivation to a computer operating system and just like computers need upgrades along the way so does our perception of motivates people to thrive boldly. He has organized what scientist, psychologist, and forward, out-of-the-box thinkers have to support a newer way of thinking regarding motivation in the workplace. The author begins the book describing what he calls Motivation 1.0, the basic biological drive to survive which leads to an upgrade to Motivation 2.0, which is the era of rewards and punishments or carrots and sticks which seemed to work for the 20th century. However, society seems to be stuck

It is apparent that the contradiction is quite large and yet the new Motivation Drive 3.0 system makes complete sense. However, changing society’s perception to change has always been slow moving. We tend to get stuck and not want change. I grew up in the “if-then” rewards system and apparently, I tend to do the same in my classroom. I have always tried to have a unique twist to rewards to actually be privileges and not always “stuff” for good behavior and/or doing what is expected. The unique job of a teacher is to find what motivates each student. I look at my students from last year and realize a had a few who would do what was right because they inherently wanted to do what was right. Consequently, they always earned the most “rewards” within the class. Then, I had few students who loved the challenge and couldn’t wait to earn “rewards”. Then the final few who, I guess is who I was trying to motivate, wasn’t motivated by the rewards or nothing for that matter. No matter the reward, except field trips, a couple students were unmotivated. So, my question is, do 1st and 2nd graders learn this motivation from their parents? Is motivation contingent on the parent, environment, function or dysfunction of the home? I realize the hardest students to motivate were the students whose parents were not connected, didn’t follow through, or stay on top of students learning. Ultimately, the latter category became the most frustrating to deal with; student and