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  • They should zoom out to see the whole board afterwards.

  • after this go watch "alan watts work as play" ;)

  • so brilliant

  • smaller, better smelling horses! :)

  • "Maslow's hierarchy of needs" ???

    I don't think they teach that to the every day person who needs to understand this stuff.

    Don't ever underestimate how many great people are around who want to work this way but think they are crazy for wanting to. What's an even bigger motivator than this stuff in the way we behave? Society telling you that you're crazy and non-acceptance by family and friends when money is not a priority for you.

  • How big is your whiteboard?!

  • Good video, it made think about the right incentives for people work.

    I thought the level of enthusiasm is the most important fact.

    Reward is also important. I learned how...a bit.

  • Love it

  • who else is writing a paper on this??

  • You must get through a shit load of ink!

  • You are not a person,

    you have a person.

  • So what your say is.. We need a new way of doing things.. A new way of arranging things.. A new world order.

  • I am not the very least interested in this but with the images and explanation, both accompanying each other, BEST PRESENTATION EVER!

  • quite deep

  • Interesting & insightful!

  • to program you to think you aren't slave (but the truth is you are) has the same result, and the good news is this is what's happening between you and ..(fill in the blank, if you can't, wow! they're really good in programming you.!)

  • I wish I had that handwriting :D

  • The federal reserve bank doesn't really fund anything. They devalue our money by counterfeiting our money, and then they give it away to their buddies. If the federal reserve is involved, that should make you very very suspicious.

  • I am thinking of setting up my own business. How do I apply this in my management style, towards my employees? Am I not destroying my own motivation to own a business?

  • @crocopie This model is in line with the pre-80's business philosophy of "If I take care of my customers they will take care of me." That's a quote from Jim Stowers who founded American Century, a mutual fund company, in the 1950's. He knew that if he took only a modest cut (1% of assets under management) and returned good results for the people in his community, the number of people coming to him would increase. He got wealthy by doing right by people -- and his employees.

  • @crocopie Make your employees shareholders :)

  • Ron Paul: what the fuck is this shit ?!

  • The thought occurred to me that the subjects offered hi financial reward may be thinking "The cognitive task must be extraordinarily grand to offer such a handsome reward" and psyching themselves out of solving it before they even start. It is more difficult to get psyched out of mechanical tasks because those are more emotion-neutral. Just saying.

    It may not be as mysterious as they're making it.

  • @InvincibleNumanist—the research is old, but the vast majority of the business world continues to ignore it.

  • 85% of people are scared of intelectual success

  • 1.Autonomy

    2.Mastery

    3.Purpose

    5:10

    Thumb this up. so others can see it first !! ;-)

  • The fact that the Study was sponsored ny the Federal reserve makes me suspicious. People should look up the Fed.

  • theres nothing new about this. the fact that rewards stop making a difference after a certain point has been talked about by marginalists for over a century.

  • @InvincibleNumanist

    Perhaps, for someone who took economics classes it is so. But as someone who did not, I find this video quite entertaining.

  • take this LIKE from me!;]

  • Organization.

  • I tend to believe that motivation starts and is primarily driven from within. Cognitive people tend to be entrepreneurs ... laborers are not ... thus the carrot and stick works for them. Cognitive people see a problem and know the solution ... they just don't have the time to break away and fix the problems or create solutions ... when they do, great things happen ... like more technology that replaces the need for labor.

  • @MHAStakeholders How do you determine exactly which people fall into your "cognitive" and "laborer" categories? Have you considered that many people working manual labor jobs may have higher career goals? Or perhaps they engage in cognitive pass-times? That being said, I certainly agree that motivation is primarily eternal. But it must also be cultivated. In some more than in others.

  • Interesting. While paying employees more doesn't necessary motivate them, give them autonomy certainly doesn't mean paying them less.

  • the drawing is all green screen if u skip to about 9 min

  • Is this really new stuff? It seems to follow Maslow's hierarchy of needs, developed in the 1930s.

  • @kiwijam777 well its america so maslow was prolly a commie :)

  • @kiwijam777 Actually, it's not Maslow's theory but Self-determination theory by Deci & Ryan

  • @kiwijam777 Nothing is entirely new however we all need reminding of these concepts every now and then!

  • @kiwijam777 Darwin ideas weren't new either. The point is that somebody do the actual work of testing a theory. Darwin got in that ship, and stalked birds for years and years. So I guess maybe we have more proof about how this works?

  • i could watch rsa videos all night lol :D great stuff keep up the good work

  • White board that never ends?

  • Simply brilliant;)

  • Interesting, but the study at the beginning is totally flawed. They used non-productive activites that people normally enjoy for free- solving puzzles, shooting hoops, etc. and then "wonder" why rewards didn't make a difference?? Seem more like a Penn & Teller-type of study. For the puzzles, the reward was actually distracting because then they focused on both. How about having them do some actual work, such as mopping or sanding a floor, or adding columns of numbers and sorting papers?

  • @gilbet cont...Also, the other examples- Linux and Apache don't exactly qualify as altruism. People develop the software because they need to use it themselves, AND they allow others to use it. And Wikipedia is just publishing info, which people love to do, as well as trying to label things accurately. All of these examples are not applicable to the general economy that puts food on the table and socks on your feet. 

  • @gilbet interesting point, I agree.

  • @gilbet I think the idea with puzzles is that it is a thinking task much like, programing, and engineering (which arguably are puzzles, "With the tools you have make something that does ___" ). You get detracted with the reward thus your performance would go down as you said. Many tasks like mopping or sorting do not require as much thought. My first job which was unpacking + sorting clothes that came in I found after 1 week I could just daydream while being on an "autopilot".

  • I want that whiteboard.

  • Ya self control is important in life

  • Quite a socialist democratic view on capitalism to be honest lol.

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  • The talk does not address the punishment side of the equation, which is interesting.

    For example, the tax code in America is used to punish the tax PAYERS, and reward the tax CONSUMERS.

    Tragically, the longer one spends in graduate school, the less they are able to employ basic common sense.

    And calling the Federal Reserve the mainstream brought peals of derisive laughter down on you, RSA. You need a heavy dose of Milton Friedman, its clear.

  • amazing explanation!!

  • The only word I will add is respect. Awesome is awesome.

  • totally awesome !

  • man, I wish I could draw that fast.

  • SCIENCE!

  • steve jobs? lol wut

  • can you share a high resolution image of this illustration?

  • Damn, that seems to be true! But then, what is next? How do we get it into use? How to apply the purpose motivation to real life?

  • @KoichiSenada Getting rid of the monetary system would be task #1

  • awesome drawings! i wish i could draw like that

  • fascinating, enlightening, and inspirational

  • We already know that people don't all learn the same ways. It should be no surprise that different people are motivated in different ways. The presentation draws conclusions about AGGREGATE performance. I guarantee you that there are many people who are profoundly motivated by compensation. Apparently just not as many as are rewarded by other things. Things that motivate you at 22 and single are different than things that motivate you at 30 with a family.

  • @sdrum49 The point of this video was to show how similar we are in the ways that we're motivated. We humans have more in common than you think. And we're not as corrupt as you think. Our artificial design of the world is what has corrupted us. And the biggest culprit is the monetary system.

  • You mentioned sth like"start treating ppl like ppl"so my wonder is how do researchers exactly treat ppl when they test them and keep under observation?Like human beings?How does it differ from studying behaviour of animals?We are not called homo sapiens without any reason.We've got brain to think and communicate our needs and motives.Instead of letting others to explore our minds and look for the answers,find a courage to talk.Just take care of yourself because noone else will do that for you.

  • This doesn't have flaws per-se but is u think about it how did u get scientists to work that out for ya? Yup they were doin they're job to sustain a living and give themselves what they want, remember than in a pure commie state we would still b ridin 60's cars

  • This is some nice scribing, right here.

  • I LOVE THE PICTURES

    *had to type this, now back to the video*

  • ...rather it might help to raise the level of competition and enourage even higher aspirations

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  • Brilliant

  • markusbrownicus01 is so wed to his right-wing ideology that he has failed to understand what the point of the video is. take off the blinders, markusbrownicus01. You appear an idiot in your comments.

  • Wear only underwear in the office. Smoke pot in the office. Occupy corporate space so that it becomes personal space. When they treat money as more important than people, be creatively destructive. Just saying.

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  • Wow - so much information that hits so close to home. Great video and explanations. Now if only we can get some corporations realize some of the basics concepts like the fact that we are people, not slaves and that we do more and better work when we are not worried about money lol

  • mm just dont care.. work for what u see best

  • @TheBigMaesterD Corporations are made up of people.

  • Totally want to buy a poster of this for my office wall!

  • @Fionakiwi You would be better off staying home and reading some anarchist philosophy. Your office wall is the wall of your prison cell where you submit to the system of wage slavery.

  • @1nf3rn05tr1k3 Pfft... except that my 'office' wall is also my bedroom wall where I am currently co-writing a script about anarchy to be filmed in New Zealand in May :)

  • @Fionakiwi Good

  • @Fionakiwi Lol right!? Where can I get it? Hmmm...

  • Thank you for the really informative video. I enjoyed the illustrations as well. :D

  • My ex-boss could, and should, watch this and try to learn why the attrition rate at his company is so high.

  • wow great stuff, I thank you very much for your time and clear explanations about a different angle on what gets us motivated, mesmorising

  • Goddamnt you used a lot of ink :P

  • WHY ARE YOU YELLING?!

  • how daft do have to be to dislike this?

  • I have no words for how amazing this video is to me. It makes so much sense... but I don't know why!

  • Maslow just pooped his pants...

  • The truth can't handle Chuck Norris.

  • if u pay people a large amount of money to do something creative that is autonomy they migth not do it becaus of the pressure

  • This is such a Strawman Argument. Nobody is saying that if you pay people more to do a job, they will automatically do a better job. They have the causality backwards. If you do a better job, you usually get paid more money. The experiments cited are not Free Market driven, but more akin to what Left-wing Unions advocate. The free market says that the more unique a skill or one with higher demand usually means more money for that person. Conversely, the more common or lower demand job. . .

  • . . .the lower the wages. The Indians who made 1 week and 2 month's pay for doing a job are going to work harder than the one who gets 2 month's pay for the same job because they are working week to week or month to month, while the highest bracket is set for 2 months with just one paycheck. Why should they work hard? Oh, and since when did the Federal Reserve Bank become the mainstream of the mainstream?

  • So apparently, the Fed is now considered the "mainstream" of capitalist opinion. It's just the physical manifestation of capitalist ideology. God, people are really stupid sometimes.

  • Your vid went viral on South Africa

  • You know, I could base my WHOLE report of motivation on this video as no amount of research I conduct could come near to the level of this video, but that would be plagiarism. Doesn't mean I can't source it as one of those pieces of research. Fantastic talk, really intriguing!

  • ZOOM ALL, PLEZ!

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  • 02:58 he spelled WEIRD wrong. just sayin XD

  • @justinenadia05 LOL just noticed that!

  • @chlyb42 you would because our cavemen ancestor never recieved any incentive from God to invent a wheel

  • This explains why I'm not writing my research paper right now. The incentive of a good project grade (big reward) isn't enough motivation for me to want to perform the complicated task of writing the paper

  • well yeah this explains why i am trying to find something interesting to listen or read and not doing my drawing projects.. although i love drawing.. but people, doctors and friends can really hypnotise us and make us think that grades.. money are more important. i think that this sensitivity and orientation toward what people say.. this energy in general.. with our awarness to work for our real purpose can be really feed up our creativity..

  • @ITsHxCTOASTER Versus a student who wants to get better at writting, is by itself a better reward than a stand alone project grade and is the better incentive. Wow :D

  • @MrQuickSqueez Precisely

  • I liked it

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  • Thanks, this is the best channel i bumped into !!!

  • Amazing! Loved it!

  • What i wanna know is how much money is the guy who cleans that whiteboard gonna get paid?

  • Wow,what a profoundly clear video, that speaks what I've always said. Work is for people, not for people to have some mental need to order people around...

  • Memorizing is misspelled at 1:04!!!

  • @Kakichum In the UK we spell it that way. It's English!

  • @Kakichum Not if you're in Australia or UK

  • @Kakichum OMG< LOL, you dolt. British/American

  • Try to run a company paying your employees the least amount possible. your competitors will be there to sweep up the pieces when you go out of business.

  • @senchang that's not the message he's conveying. He's saying that tasks, most prominently ones that involve creative thinking, aren't primarily motivated by monetary reward. Mostly referencing leadership styles and other higher-up stuff like reward systems, he's explaining that tapping into your workers' more complex motivators, such as self-improvement or even philanthropic motivators, will lead to even further success. I'm no expert on the subject, but that's what I took from this

  • @Dannya182 The basic pyramid of needs have to be met before higher level motivation comes into play. Why else would all the best engineers flock to Google, Microsoft, and Facebook? You're right, the best companies will be concerned with higher level motivators, but there are a lot of clueless managers who look at this and say we just need to give employees more freedom and don't have to be concerned with competitve pay.

  • Wow. I was fascinated by trying to figure out who was doing the drawing and how they were so talented at it.The guy who was talking had an American accent, but the hand was writing with British spellings. I would love a sneak peak behind the rehearsal and filming behind these visuals.

  • im gonna do something like this for my college art portfolio. explaining my childhood, living in canada than moving to japan, and the reasons why i want to be an artist and go to their school?

    good idea?

  • Fascinating! :o

  • Surely, this is a direct manifestation of Maslov's 'heirachy of needs' ? I've seen the principles outlined by Dan work in practice many times over the last 30 years, particularly the negative impact of financial reward.

  • This isn't animation this is speeding up film while someone draws.

  • @blomismyfavefairy1 He draws at normal speed, and then speeds it up using editing software. He records the sound over the playback of the video.

  • HE MAKES A VALID POINT IN WORKING BASED ON INCENTIVES VS WORKING BASED ON SELF MOTIVATION AND DIRECTION, BUT THE BIGGEST QUESTION STILL ARISES THAT HE HAD NOT ANSWERED; WHO AND WHY WOULD DO THAT IF IT WERENT PROFIT BASED?? POEPLE ARE MOTIVATED BY THEIR OWN SELF INTRESET AND THE DESIRE OF GREED....

  • @abrahamkarr12 I think his point is that many, if not most, people AREN'T motivated by greed and profit, but purpose and change.

  • @abrahamkarr12 I don´t think you grasped enough of what he was trying to convey. He said, provide a reasonable reward, which lets people away from thinking in small things, add some other purposes and then they will be freed to do the great things. But you do need to provide a bare minimum. Motivation by greed is a byproduct of existing system. Look everywhere for alternatives and you will find it: philosophy, religion, etc. People do not have to be greed! We only learn that.

  • Seems to get stuck at 09:06 for some reason - won't play past there! Pity I was enjoying it!!

  • How do u draw that fast but looks good lol.

  • Awsome vid!!!

  • thank u stumble upon.....

  • Best video I've seen this year. Rest of the internet be damned.

  • what

    i was just in a rob ray fighting playlist

    how the hell did i end up here

  • He makes a brilliant point. Self direction and motivation is grossly undervalued in today's education system.

  • So this is essentialy ValvE and Google? (two i could come up with now)

  • world's. longest. whiteboard.

  • Hmm ... Let me send my teacher this, let her see what a white board was actually made for.

  • Radical liberals need to watch this (radical conservatives too).

  • I wanted to see what the entire white board looked like after we was done. =(

  • Who else couldn't stop looking at the misspelling of "Weird"?

  • I wanna make notes in the school like this.:!

  • HI GUYS ! HERE THERE IS ANOTHER TOOL/METHOD TO KEEP ENGINEERING STUDENTS "MOTIVATED" ... PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT IN FACEBOOK:

    "Active Biomedical Engineering Students"

    THANKS ^__^

  • Listing to theoretical and factual discussion whilst watching incredible animations complementing and relating to the discussion is memorizing. Fantastic

  • @rankingtrevor mesmerizing*

  • @fajiste Thank you for the correction kind sir.

  • @rankingtrevor I know what u mean!

  • @rankingtrevor ... you mean "mesmerizing"

  • @jchnp7 whatever he meant, the more senses you use, the better you memorize.

  • "the science shows we want to be self-directed"

    oh boy if only the government could understand that..

  • I agree but he's speaking of intelligent people... what about the idiots?... I mean the people that spend to much time in front of a mirror, the people that express themselves through violence, the people that don't know enough but think that their opinion matters... what about the overpaid stupids?

  • @YoungNoble480 Society makes them like that, those are the one's that get paid enormous cash flows and society feeds their egos,("Reality" TV Shows, Childish Tantrums that get rewarded, etc...) Stop feeding the "animals" with attention and eventualy they loose their purpose.

  • @YoungNoble480 No one is stupid. Everybody has potential. Yes. there are shallow people but everybody has the potential to be motivated. This is not only for intelligent people. MAN.

  • Yes, I agree, but where to find this purpose?

  • @rouakrimi By doing what you like to do, by not treating people like animals in the "You must serve me." kinda way :D

  • @Soviet20 Fair enough, but I was talking about some kind of a "higher purpose", but I guess I found it in Music!" :)

  • I coulda came up with this... but I took an arrow to the knee. Just sayin'

  • @Kaetos0218 WHHHYYYY! The joke has been dead for weeks, please just let it go

  • @Kaetos0218 I'm begging you dude- please explain that joke. I JUST DON'T GET IT.

  • 08:54, Can I ask why the all-seeing eye is above that building!? :s

  • @StylorLimited I guess that's the illuminati sign

  • It does make sense. Look at the redundant jobs say in customer service(malls,food stations etc) they are unhappy and unmotivated. Can't wait to get off work. People are thinking of "the money".

  • I like this videos. Still those are very creative endeavors, very creative people. People who like their jobs and are still in fact getting paid. Thus it is only the increase in pay that is at risk here for them, not their entire paycheck. People who work at McDonalds, a Grocery store , a mine or factory won't have the same feeling.

    I mean, if money didn't matter, why are people complaining in the OWS movement that they only have a little of it?

  • "some people thought that was SOME KIND OF SOCIALIST CONSPIRACY"...

    Shit,,, when the fucking U.S. will go through the fucking trauma u assholes have with Russia?

    I really believe the real and only "weird conspiracy" is the built by the sons-of-a-fucking-whore ZIONIST-PIECES-OF-SHIT...

    Fuck u man

  • I found a link to the study he's referring to if anyone would like to read it for themselves. YouTube won't let me link it so just google 2markets.pdf because that's what it's saved as on the MIT website.

  • @pgallipeau4 thank you!

  • is it weird that i like listening to his voice?

  • In regards to playing a musical instrument -- "it's not going to get you a mate" -- not necessarily true.

  • you have "wierd" spelling! :)

  • this was awesome