Go-Getter or Slacker: Brain Chemicals Decide
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next time your parents complain that you’re a slacker, and not a go-getter
like your sibling, tell them this: it’s your brain’s fault.
Scientists have discovered that different levels of dopamine in three
brain [...]
Lectures for a New Year: What Motivates Us, Aside from Money
In this RSA Animate video, author and former Al Gore speechwriter Dan Pink discusses a series of studies about what motivates people — and more practically, what motivates workers. He takes apart the simplistic notion that monetary rewards result in better performance; such rewards do improve performance for purely mechanical tasks, but when you [...]
