motivation

How to Change Your Homeschool: Notes from Switch

How to Change Your Homeschool: Notes from Switch

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hardby Chip Heath & Dan HeathPublication date: 2010 Date read: 2013Source: Local library.Recommended by: a thread on the Well-Trained Mind ForumMy rating (out of 5): ★ ★ ★ 1/2I recommend it, but borrow it from the library. Summary of Switch The authors examine the common denominators in successful change (personal and corporate),…

Classically Charlotte: Children are born persons

Classically Charlotte: Children are born persons

So Brandy of Afterthoughts is leading a study of Charlotte Mason’s 20 Principles of Education at the Ambleside Online forum, and even though I don’t use Ambleside, I very much respect and admire Miss Mason’s principles. So, I thought I’d follow their discussion and also work out here how her principles align with classical categories….

Finding Motivation: Autonomy in [Home] School and [House] Work
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Finding Motivation: Autonomy in [Home] School and [House] Work

This series was inspired by my reading of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink. What is Autonomy? autonomy, (aw-ton-uh-mee)n. Drive summarizes autonomy as it relates to motivation this way: People need autonomy over task (what they do), time (when they do it), team (who they do it with), and technique…

What is Intrinsic Motivation? Motivating Without Stickers

What is Intrinsic Motivation? Motivating Without Stickers

So, if Daniel Pink, in his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, is correct in his conclusions, extrinsic motivators should be taboo whenever the work we assign requires creativity or when it is something that touches personhood (virtue, learning). So what tactics are left to us? If we aren’t to use sticker…

How Not to Motivate: Extrinsic Rewards
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How Not to Motivate: Extrinsic Rewards

As I reviewed on Friday, In Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink argues that motivation and satisfaction center on having these three operators in our lives: It turns out that even science is now demonstrating that people are not purely economically motivated, yet as Pink puts it, “there’s a gap between…

Book Review | Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Book Review | Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Back in January I listened to a library audio copy of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink. It was one of those synchronicity books: unaware of the book, Matt had come across the RSA summary and shared it with me and then a day or two later I was browsing…