It’s interesting how
Pink points out how putting rewards behind deeds ruins the value of the deed.
On pg.36 he talks about how pre-school children were offered a reward for drawing,
something they previously enjoyed. They lost interest in drawing based on the
fact that now the activity had monetary value rather than intrinsic value. At
first this doesn’t make sense to me. If a person goes to school, works hard,
becomes a doctor, then they enjoy the act helping people despite the idea they
make a ton of money. That’s why they’re a doctor. You don’t go to school for
7-8 years, graduate, and then decide “awww
medicine is no fun, I’m gonna sell shoes now.” However, it makes perfect sense
regarding Samantha’s reference to reading in elementary school. I despised reading unless it was something I was
interested in. I could read about wildlife all day, but then AR stuff came
along and said I HAD to read these books I wasn’t even interested in, what
little desire I did have to read when right out the door. The idea I was going
to get a little pizza from “Book It” (which I didn’t even like) didn’t help.
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