Summer Assignment Number 3!

   The book that I am no currently reading is Drive by Daniel Pink. It basically focuses on what it is that actually "Drives" us to perform our best. The first article that I located which seems to correlate with the similar topic is called "What Motivates us to Do Great Work?" by Jocelyn K Glei. The article summed up is that just the thought of expanding our knowledge or accomplishing something new is enough to motivate us to do our best. The article refers to this as our "inner voice," it's where we decide whether we want to do something or should do something. To provide us with evidence of this, Glei uses and experiment that was conducted. 

   Both Drive by Daniel Pink and the article "What Motivates us to do Work?" have a common argument both saying just about the same thing. That the reward that we crave the most for completing something, isn't a material object, it's an a emotion, a feeling. It seems as if the same methods are used in the article as Daniel Pink used in his book. Logos plays a big part in both the book and the article. In the article the author Jocelyn uses an example of a college study done, to support what she says. In the book the author also uses a logos approach to support his argument, by using a study done by a well known professor Edward Deci, that portrays and supports exactly what Pink is attempting to say.

   Both authors seem to have a similar idea and approach to this topic but if there were a conflict it might be that in the article, the focus and audience seems to be on workers, while in Drive, the focus seems to be anyone interested in this topic. They might argue over why it is they each chose those audiences and I would have to say that I side with Daniel Pinks way of thinking and targeting. He made it accessible to anyone who wants to become aware of what makes them try there best. 

   The second article I found that I thought related rather nicely with Pinks book is a article written by the Chicago Tribune titled "Are you Born to be Motivated?" by Jen Weigel. This article takes motivation and shows it in a new light. Discussing that how we are motivated might go all the way down to our genes. Along with that, the article discusses the idea of motivation by fear, and motivation by striving for a goal. The author of the article has a similar take as Pink, but they include fear as a motivator which Pink didn't mention very much in his book. Pink focuses more on the satisfaction of accomplishing something. The author uses a large amount of pathos by having a rather large quantity of quotes from well knows psychologists such as Paul White. If an argument took place between these two authors I would side with Weigel because fear as a motivation is definitely something that should be studied a little farther.

   The final article that I read regarding motivation was one focused on kids, and targeted at parents and teachers.  The title is "How motivation Affects Learning and Behavior " by J.E. Ormrod. This article discusses how in order for kids to learn they have to be motivated to do so,this article suggests through material objects. That is very much the opposite of what Daniel Pink states in his book. Both of their arguments are very different but I can't help but wonder if it's because Pinks is directed at adults for adults, while this article is directed at teachers/parents for children. If these two were to get in a argument I would be very interested to see how it is they would each support themselves but I would have to side with Pink, since his book has a substantial amount of evidence and support while the article was very poorly supported.

1st article- http://99u.com/articles/6943/what-motivates-us-to-do-great-work 

2nd article-http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-14/features/ct-tribu-weigel-motivation-20120814_1_motivation-personality-social-network

3rd article- http://www.education.com/reference/article/motivation-affects-learning-behavior/