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Drive : the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

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EDITORIAL REVIEW:Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book *Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us*, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the *wrong* way to motivate people for today's challenges. In *Drive*, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:***Autonomy**- the desire to direct our own lives***Mastery**- the urge to get better and better at something that matters***Purpose**- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselvesAlong the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces u

Who reads Drive : the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us?

It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.

Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.

Author
Daniel H. Pink
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9781594484803
Category
self-help
Subjects
Fiction, Self Help, Science
Rating
3.95 / 5 (58,428 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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