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2. Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink

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What Happened to the Unpaid Group?

Daniel Pink watched people play with a puzzle for eight minutes while Desi was away. The paid group suddenly got really interested in the sum of puzzles, he says. But those who had been paid responded differently to being left alone and spent significantly less time playing with the puzzle. In an echo of what Harlow discovered two decades earlier, Desi revealed that human motivation seems to operate by laws that round counter to what most scientists and citizens believed.

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