What Drives Student Motivation? Daniel Pink, a leading author in the area of changing the world of work, introduced three primary concepts as the basis for motivation: autonomy, mastery and purpose.
If you haven’t seen his YouTube video on this topic take a few minutes and check it out. When people are engaged in meaningful work, the motivation for them to do better is not for pay; they are motivated by autonomy, mastery and purpose. Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose: The Science of What Motivates Us, Animated.
The Motivation Trifecta: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. By Janet Choi Money isn’t the most powerful or effective motivator.
Back in the 1970′s, psychologist Edward Deci ran an experiment showing how incentivizing students with money to solve puzzles actually made them less interested in working on them after being paid. Meanwhile, another group of students who hadn’t been offered money, worked on the puzzles longer and with more interest. Deci’s work uncovered the powerful and significant difference between extrinsic motivation, the kind that comes from outside sources, and intrinsic motivation, the kind that comes from within yourself.
So how do you attain that intrinsic motivation?