RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSAEvents Like the RSA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsaeventsofficial/ Listen to RSA podcasts: https://soundcloud.com/the_rsa See RSA Events behind the scenes: https://instagram.com/rsa_events/ ------ This audio has been edited from the original event by Becca Pyne. Series produced by Abi Stephenson, RSA. Animation by Cognitive Media. Andrew Park, the mastermind behind the Animate series and everyone's favourite hairy hand, discusses their appeal and success in his blog post, 'Talk to the hand': http://www.thersa.org/talk-to-the-hand/

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1. Im an IT specialist, to be honest im driven by recognition backup by monetary value. The least we want to worry about is money, so a good pay means a lot to have a quality life and well being. It's challenging to develop a system and if a job is not paying well means our masterpiece is not appreciated. So we tend to do freelance, most of it pay higher than companies. Lets be real here ok, dont compare our way of thinking to lil kids if you get what i mean.
2. at 2:50 he spells weird as wierd.... bro I've been doing that for years, thought i was the only one. Good video!
3. the drawing made me mad
4. The innovation produced in things like the iPhone has nothing to do with capitalism as an economic system - that's just how to profit (surplus value) is distributed. By definition in a system in which you are paid a fraction of your worth and the remainder of what you create is absorbed by your employer, typically a very large corporation, you are being exploited. In a socialist system massive corporations would be socialized, meaning the people who actually innovate and work are the ones who keep the surplus value (profit) and divide it amongst themselves, not to the board of directors and the shareholders
5. Does it bother anyone else that he spelt weird wrong?
6. Forced to watch, 1/10.
7. This doesn't contradict classical economics, neoclassical economics, or any other kind of economics that I know of, and it definitely doesn't imply that socialism is great. People are strange.
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9. Watched this from a Linux laptop.
10. What is the name of the study of MIT?
11. If not money what it is ?
12. Dan Pink. The study of motivation. That's him narrating.
    
    Watch his TED talk. It's great!
13. That is communism!
14. "employee autonomy leads to engagement, management leads to compliance" .... Ricardo Semler said this a while ago .... very good to see it repeated again though .... most folks don't get this
15. Wow, turns out that meaningful work and a decent wage are more motivational than menial tasks and random sporadic bonuses.  How many PhD's did it take to come up with that?  Any of them ever have an actual job?
16. FREE the MARKET!
    6:35 Hmm....😒 That's the majority of American businesses. Everytime the govt would just get out of the way great new inventions & services would appear!
17. You mean to tell me people are dumb and they take issue with accomplishing tasks beyond menial labor? I'm just shocked they couldn't find a better crop of individuals looking for a free handout for participating in a study, shocked!
18. Who is here because of the Venus Project? :)
19. THIS ! THIS THIS THIS THIS !!! OMG, That's exactly my ideology. I love Open Source Software and I hate unethical corporations. I would gladly do work for free if it makes the world a better place, given that I have enough money to live a normal life and have enough time for what I like - and I like making the world a better place and help others.
    
    I am blessed to work for a Call Center company as IT Support and help with the server maintenance and some programming (more like automation of some repetitive stuff around the console). This company is amazing and it just feels like you are part of a big family. We have fun at work, things like happy hour and more. And I wish every other company would do the same and stop thinking about becoming huge corporations with a lot of money - they should think about ethical things, what Microsoft, Apple and Google don't, mining all your data or ripping their customers off. From the outside, it seems like they are great workplaces, they have fun inside, they have special "fun and relaxation" facilities, but the companies' purposes are terrible. Only MONEY MONEY MONEY and they do that by avoiding taxes and more unethical things. I once wanted to work for Microsoft, but if they would want to hire me, I would probably refuse. I'd rather work at a smaller company, like Canonical, or some more ethical companies like Tesla. For now I love my current job and I don't intend to quit it for a while, but in the future either I get to be paid more or I will need to find something else to do, since I won't be able to survive with around 150% of the minimum wage forever.
20. Reminds me of an assignment I had in high school. Each of us were assigned a planet in the solar system, and with that planet we had to create an alien species that would work in that environment. However, days before, my dad had spoken to my teacher during one of those open house parent teacher things, and casually mentioned that I was into creative writing. So, for the assignment, she basically told me to choose whatever planet I wanted, even if it was an exo-planet (a planet outside the solar system).
    
    I don't think I've ever worked as hard on an assignment for school in my entire life. And it's the only assignment I've ever been proud of.
    
    I think a factor in this idea is that pride does play a part. Giving someone money in exchange for a service is pretty much saying, "Here is how much I think you are worth at this time", and so that translates to the person doing what they think that much is worth. But with no concrete reward, I think people are keen to think, "Let me show you what I can do. Let me show you what I'm worth."
    
    That's my take on it, anyway.