Pink’s arguments and points are made very concise and powerful. This is due to the fact of the sheer amount and the quality of the sources he refers to throughout his book. Pink uses stories, scientific research, statistics and his own experiences to strengthen his overall points of the new and outdated motivation systems used in today 's businesses. Pink (2011) uses a story telling narrative a few times throughout the book to give insight on an important individual who agrees with his view on motivation, “One summer morning in 1944, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, age ten, stood on a train platform in Budapest,”(p. 107). The introduction to Csikszentmihalyi is used to give context to his harsh upbringings and how he is someone to look up to. Pink develops these individuals in order to gain an added effect when …show more content…
Pink often cites the head researcher of the experiment and then goes on to summarizes the findings and relates it to his theory of the motivational drive. The candle experiment with Glucksberg is a perfect example of this, “Glucksberg experiment provides the first question you should ask when contemplating external motivators: is the task at hand routine?”(p. 60), using the experiment’s findings, he provides context on how this experiment relates to motivation 2.0 faulty factors and reinforces his statements. This type of referencing to experiments is the foundation of Pink’s arguments and is essentially the backbone of most of his arguments towards Type I behaviour. Furthermore, another common reference pink uses, is the use of statistics to strengthen his credibility to the reader,”Gallup’s extensive research on the subject shows that in the united states, more than 50 percent of employees are not engaged at work- and nearly 20 percent our actively disengaged.”(p. 109), similar statistics such as this are present during most of the book as
In Daniel H. Pink’s book called “Drive”, tells about the theory of what’s motivation a person hence what’s their drive. In the introduction, he explained about the Harlow’s puzzle experiment with rhesus monkey and observe there were three drive of doing the activity. Pink He concluded the first drive was the biological motivation, the second drive was about the reward and punishment effect, and finally the third drive was intrinsic motivation. In the chapter 1, he explained the carrots and sticks theory where is you reward someone doing the activity, they will more work if they are kept getting reward. But if they were punished or not rewarded for the activity, they will do less or won’t do the activity.
I read the book's Outlier, it is really interesting because there had a lot of numbers as the table format. The psychologist from Canadian was Roger Barnsley made relative age, he was looking at birth and height. For example, hockey team had relative age like date of their birth. I seem there had a lot of common like how the player had good strength and all players are taller about 5’8 to 6’5 height. And also, Roger Barnsley believe players who boring on January and March are best players.
As a columnist for the Washington Post, Esther J. Cepeda writes on a wide variety of topics, yet she consistently uses certain strategies to persuade her readers. Whether she is writing about heritage months or Lady Doritos, Cepeda employs several rhetorical techniques that capture her readers' attention and ensure they listen to her message. A few of the more notable strategies Cepeda applies include problem-solution organization, supporting research, personal anecdotes, and reasonable counterarguments. At the beginning of each column, Cepeda discusses a specific issue and follows it with her universal and surprisingly simple solution. This problem-solution organizational strategy allows Cepeda to detail the underlying severity of a problem
In “The Talking Cure” by Margaret Talbot the author argument is very good and is evaluated through the many different ways. One way Talbot’s argument is evaluated is by the amount the of research she has done to support her argument. In the story, it states that “In all, Hart and Risley reported, they analyzed more than 1,300 hours of casual interactions between parents and their language-learning children” which shows the great amount research Talbot did find out how each social class has an effect on their children’s intellectual development because doing more than 1,300 hours of listening and recording the data would weeks and months to do. In addition to the vast amount of research Talbot had done to get her information she also gave many
Shawn Achor, psychological researcher, speaker, author and CEO of GoodThinkInc., an American organization which offers services and seminars to promote improved work performance through positive psychology. Achor argues in his February, 2011 presentation at a TEDx event in Bloomington, Indiana, that changing the formula of success and choosing to live in a world where happiness inspires productivity can be achieved by retraining your brain to be more positive over the course of 21-days. The content of Achor’s speech claimed that we are wired to believe happiness comes only after we have achieved success in the form of thoughts like "I'll be happy when I finish school", or "I'll be happy when I find a job." He states the formula we are all
In Jeffrey Kluger, Alex Aciman, and Katy Steinmetz’s article, “The Happiness of Pursuit,” several rhetorical strategies make their argument persuasive for their intended audience. The first technique they employ is clear structure in organizing their piece. In the beginning Kluger, Aciman, and Steinmetz use a hook detailing a historical funnel that paints a picture of how many things in America have risen out of difficulty. Specifically they state, “We created outrageous things just because we could--the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building, which started to rise the year after the stock market crashed, because what better way to respond to a global economic crisis than to build the world 's tallest skyscraper?” (Kluger,
As I have just started my academic future I plan to factor in Motivation 3.0 in this new journey, I ask myself how? After reading Drive written by Daniel H. Pink and getting an insight of what is takes to be a have Type I behavior and how it can make a complete difference in how I handle what’s to come I will incorporate what I have read. Pink claims that it is possible to go from Type X to Type I behavior but it won’t be easy and it won’t happen overnight (79). Type I behavior depends on three things: autonomy, mastery and purpose.
8. Rate Outliers on a scale of 1 to 5. Why did you give it that rating? 9. In Chapter 2
14, 15). Due to this style, it is a remarkable work to read since everything is the same yet different. Furthermore, the first
Discuss the methodological and ethical issues which are apparent in this study. How have the findings impacted the psychological field? One methodological issue with the Bain et al refrigerator study is that type of experiment used. Having used a laboratory experiment, all variables were under strict control and this does not reflect the true nature of the situation the children were placed in. Children trapped inside a refrigerator would not escape by pressing a panel on the floor, thus the experiment has features which do not reflect an accurate representation of a real life situation (Bain et al, 1958).
Throughout her essay, Chitwood uses strong sources to strengthen her credibility and to build her argument. Some sources include, “researchers Dalton and Crosby,” “a study by Craig and Graesser at the University of Memphis,” “psychologists Erik Erikson and Lawrence Kohlberg,” and “psychologist and educator Nevitt Sanford.” Citing these sources
F. Skinner, reduced animal behaviour to the simple set of associations between an action and its subsequent reward or punishment. This approach was considered ‘historical’ insofar that one could apply an empirical statistical analysis to predict the future as a function of the past. Here only directly observable behaviours could provide a valid basis for scientific study; in this respect the intentions behind those behaviours were difficult, if not impossible to assess, so attempts to draw conclusions one way or other, to speculate, was insupportable and therefore to be avoided. With its success, there were spillover effects for other disciplines, and became the foundation of what Robert Dahl called the “behavioural revolution” in the social sciences. Herein, the behaviourial axiom was that human behaviour is determined by environmental or cultural forces without reference to specific mental functions or
Motivation is essential for a group as well as an organization. In the eyes of the leader of organization McDonald’s, authorizing and inspiring staff members to do the best in their job and they’re capable of helps create job satisfaction, lowering gross revenue in an industry that has a standing for stimulating its employees. In addition, a glad, stable workforce not just conveys better customer service; it is likewise more compelling at building deals and attracting repeat business. There are five concentrate benefits of employee motivation which Mc Donald’s approached at: 1. Improved Productivity 2.
Hill explains this theory further with a study conducted with a University