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

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The Sawyer Effect

The Sawyer Effect is the idea that if you pay people to do something, then they will see it as work. Desi says studies reflect this literary idea of Mark Twain in his book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He explains how researchers watched a classroom of preschoolers for several days and identified the children who chose to spend their free playtime drawing.

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