Key Lesson
Key Lesson: The drive to get better at something that matters is a powerful motivator.
— from Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation) · Drive by Daniel H Pink
In the book
It is not, in the end, the carrots and sticks; external rewards reliably undermine the deeper kind of drive, especially for anything creative. The lasting fuel is three things: autonomy — the freedom to direct your own work; mastery — the deep human drive to get better and better at something that matters; and purpose — the sense of serving something larger than yourself. Learn to tell your intrinsic motives from your extrinsic ones, and lean, wherever you can, on the intrinsic. — Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)