What Motivates Us Thesis

I never had a problem with English. I cannot recall learning to read or write, but I remember that once I was able to, I was not able to stay away from reading everything I could get my hands on and scribbling sentences on sheets of paper. In Daniel H. Pink’s book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, he introduces that motivational factors fall into two categories classified as either extrinsic or intrinsic. Extrinsic motivations often include a reward for a task, such as money or food or anything else a person can get material or physical pleasure from. Intrinsic motivations are, instead, the gratification of the task, as “[t]he joy of the task was its own reward” (Pink, 3). I would classify my interest in reading and writing as intrinsic motivation, as it was by my own human curiosity and inclination to learn that I indulged in them frequently. I was one of the children that was able to write their name the soonest, I would
I was getting no rewards for my efforts, and no matter how hard I tried, I kept receiving punishments for my failures. Pink spends his book talking about how there needs to be an upgrade to the world’s current system of motivation, which he calls Motivation 2.0. Its definition is that people are incited by rewards and punishments, and when you set out to do a task it is only because of the negative or positive repercussions. It is a rudimentary formula because, do to observations from behaviorists, society knows that there are other motivating factors. Those other motivating factors take the shape of intrinsic motivators, and those are what make up Motivation 3.0, the system that Pink says society should develop. Motivation 2.0 is “deeply unreliable” in Pink’s words, as “many times it doesn’t [work]” and that is why people should aspire to work by Motivation 3.0 standards