Daniel Pink

I took away from this video that you in order to be successful; it is sometimes best to do it without carrots or sticks, which are Daniel Pink’s way of symbolizing rewards and punishments. Autonomy, which is also known as working individually on your own idea, has proven to be successful through companies like Google, who dedicate twenty percent of their employees’ time to where employees can create. According to Daniel Pink, this has been the time where about half of Google’s programs are created.

Gmail was created through autonomy by Paul Bucheit

This is Google Sky, where you can look at pictures of the planets and the universe, which was created on autonomy

Probably the most popular Google application used by high school students enrolled in a foreign language comes Google Translate, yet another autonomy case. 

Although not the most popular application, Google Talk is where you can chat with your friends through IM or video. This also works in part with iChat, the Skype made by Apple. 

The effective speaking techniques consist of giving evidence of what he was saying. Sure, someone could just certainly go talk about something without really knowing anything about the subject whatsoever, but he enticed his audience by giving psychological evidence of what he was saying. For example, when he brought up proven tests that have been given by professionals in the field, it was the cause of many people agreeing with what he had to say.

His presentation style was mostly speaking with very few pictures. Unlike the video I watched yesterday, Daniel Pink did not use many pictures to represent what he was talking about. However when he did use pictures, it made sense to the audience as to why these pictures would be necessary over just talking about “The Candle Solution”. When pictures were shown, people were excited and understanding of the visual demonstration.

The point that Daniel Pink is trying to get across that matters is that people do better without the feeling of a reward, because they are doing what they do through self-satisfaction and the enjoyment of what they are doing, which gives human beings more motivation than a reward like money. This connects to me personally, because like many people that Pink mentioned, I am not driven by the thought of earning money. In order to motivate some of my other siblings, my mom pays us money for grades. You would think that my siblings have stellar grades, but they really are not. Even without this rule in place, I truly believe that my grades would remain the exact same.  It is not that I have straight A’s to the point where they could not go up at all, but when my grades come into my mind, the money that I could make from grades does not. A Harvard study also shows that kids who were motivated with money still did not do any better. The main concept that comes into my head is how this will affect my future for stuff like college. This matters to education, because sometimes when a teacher wants students to get something done that the students may be unwilling to accomplish, they will tell the teacher that they want something out of it. Once in one of my math classes it was teacher evaluation day for my teacher. He asked us to be on our best behavior and to pay attention to the lesson. Rather than being flexible, the students insisted that they would be good if he brought cupcakes or donuts. He did just that. Once the students in my class realized that he actually followed through and brought the cupcakes, they were shocked. I heard comments like “Wow I didn’t think he would actually do it!” Although many students did not actually believe that he would do it, they still paid attention to what the lesson was. However, not all students are driven to pay attention and work hard without rewards. For quite a few days, some of the students were nagging him to bring in these cupcakes and donuts and constantly questioning where they were. They began expressing remorse for being quiet and saying that they should have ignored what he wanted. Everyday, we see those students who cannot be motivated with anything, even grades. 
Please note that I put some sources from Wikipedia, because Wikipedia is an autonomy as well.