Intrinsic motivation vs. Extrinsic stimulus

By Dima Malenko | Published: September 15, 2009

Great talk by Dan Pink at TED about pitfalls of extrinsic stimulus and scientific evidence for intrinsic motivation:

I kind of always felt that way, but now I’ve got evidence to refer to. Plutarch was right that

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

You can not stimulate creativity, you can only create environment for it to blossom.

Ashley

That was a lengthy video but very useful. I have come across many things I dont know and learnt it now (eg. candle problem).

Dima Malenko

There is not that much of a resume :) Keep up the creative work!

I hope that now that we know results of this research, we can do something to avoid being the next hero of Dilbert comics.

Ksaniya

Thanks for resume in your post :) The speaker is so emotional that it was hard for me to listen more then a half of the presentation.. However the results of experiments are very interesting. I have never thought that rewards work in opposite way with creative tasks, yet felt smth like that.