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.
Intrinsic motivation vs. Extrinsic stimulus
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
You can not stimulate creativity, you can only create environment for it to blossom.
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