Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think.
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One of the most energizing videos I've seen lately - great music, editing, quotes — Casey Neistat is a force to be reckoned with.
Quotes from the video:
"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller
"Buy the ticket, take the ride." - Hunter S. Thompson
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West
"Above all, try something." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I never worry about the future, it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"One who makes no mistakes, makes nothing at all." - Giacomo Casanova
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years," - Abraham Lincoln
"Do More" - Casey Neistat (tattoo)
"If I'd followed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere." - Marilyn Monroe
And my favorite: "Action expresses priorities." - Gandhi
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"If You Have Fear, You Will Fall."
If you know me, I'm constantly out in the electronic zeitgeist learning new things and meeting new people. This morning, I came upon Human Planet, an incredible BBC documentary on a man called Tete (who makes Chuck Norris look like a schoolgirl). He climbs a very tall tree (120-150 feet in the air) with just a vine and his willpower.
Why? To break into a bee hive to get honey for his family. By the way, he probably gets stung scores of times during the process.
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A Simple Act Elevates All.
Everybody was waiting for Rudy. On Tuesday night, Patty and Rick Parker were in their cramped kitchen with their 8-year-old son Ben. Dinner was over. Bedtime was near.
Ben’s twin brother, Sammy, lay on a cot in the narrow hallway just outside the kitchen. Unable to see or speak or control his limbs, he coughed or let out a little moan every now and then. Rick and Patty took turns feeding Sammy, who has cerebral palsy, through a stomach tube. He cooed when they kissed his face or stroked his cheek, and when they cooed back, he opened his mouth into a wide, joyful O.