World’s Strangest

The 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 [...]

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 [...]