Summer Assignment 4!!!!

   The book I am reading is Drive by Daniel Pink. It is non-fiction, publication date 4/5/2011. Drive is a book whose purpose is to show readers that the best form of motivation is not a material object, a prize, or any kind of reward. It is actually a feeling of satisfaction, of actually completing it that motivates us the most. An example used in the book is a puzzle. We solve puzzles, yet the majority of us do not get paid for this, nor do we usually win a prize. So why exactly is it that do it? Because of the feeling that we get once we have completed it.
   The author most definitely uses logos  throughout the book Pink actually begins the book by discussing how a professor of psychology stumbled across this discovery while performing an experiment on primates. Pink states that the primates enjoyed solving a certain puzzle and did it quicker when no reward was given at the end.  The book itself is very intrcitley written in the fact that you can tell how passionate Pink is about the topic and how much he's actually thought about it. He uses a significant amount of metaphors to better help the reader understand what it is he is saying. Pink also tackles past beliefs on how our mind worked and showed how involved in economics it was perceived to be. Economics was thought of as "the study of human economic behavior." All throughout the 1900s and even into the early 2000s. But recently new ideas say that  "we'd placed too much emphasis on the economic and not enough on the human." 
   The authors message seems to be that doing something solely for the purpose of getting money, or for winning some form of reward for completing a task, is not the way to get your best. Pink wants us to be aware that the best form of motivation, in his opinion, is just the mere satisfaction of getting it done.
   Pink uses very formal language throughout the entire book except for his occasional metaphors. The book seems to be targeted at adults in search of a way to reach their full potential and trying to find a way in which to feel the most content and motivated. The author comes off as persuasive with the amount of facts that he incorporates into the book.
   The first book I read of the summer was Flow by Mihaly. It is also a non-fiction, publication date July 1st 2008. Flow is all about how to experience an almost perfect sense of joy, whenever needed. The "whenever needed" part is the most difficult part and is what Mihaly focuses on throughout the book. He calls this sense of immense joy, flow. To describe the sensation he uses examples such as when your doing something that you enjoy very much. Whether it be a hobby such as singing, or playing an instrument. Just any moment where you feel as if the world is perfect. That, is what Mihaly describes as Flow. The problem that Mihaly addresses is that, people struggle to achieve this on a regular basis.
   Mihaly uses logos very much in his book. He continuously quotes famous psychologists and even Buddha on occasion.  The author somehow weaves all the quotes together to help create a better understanding of what it is he is attempting to discuss. Mihaly says that we are always told to worry about the future, to think about the future, to focus on the future. The problem here is, we don't "live in the moment." We don't enjoy ourselves now, and that is why we are not getting that Flow experience that we all so desperately crave.
   The authors target audience seems to be an older age group. People not satisfied with there lives at the moment, looking for joy and happiness. Mihaly targets them by using examples involving retirement, and work and uses language and metaphors that also involve retiring and having kids.