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Analysis Of The Book ' Drive ' By Daniel H. N. Pink

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Education today is too Type X- meaning the emphasis on greater rewards for doing what you should do anyways is based on extrinsic rewards. The education system seems to be heavily based on carrots and sticks. The biggest way to motivate someone seems to be by dangling something, such as a carrot, in front of someone 's face or poking them with a stick. If you want a student to do something, why are they motivated with some type of compensation such as an A in the class? In his book, Drive, Daniel H. Pink divides motivation into three categories that evolved over time- Motivation 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. using these theories to challenge this motivation of carrot and sticks.
Throughout Pink’s book, motivation is described as an operating system. He tells readers that humans initial operating system, which he calls Motivation 1.0 was based on survival. Motivation 1.0 worked well until society started to get more complex. As pink himself put it, “it wasn 't especially elegant nor was it much different from those of rhesus monkeys, giant apes, or many other animals. But it served us nicely. It worked well. Until it didnt,” (Pink, 16). Eventually humans evolved to adapt to a more (insert adjective here) motivation system knows as Motivation 2.0.
Motivation 2.0, in the book, stated that humans set out to seek reward and avoid punishments (16). Motivation 2.0 is built entirely around rewards and punishments and what Pink refers to as "carrots and sticks". The carrot, is meant to symbolize

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