May 10
20
What’s Your School’s Sentence
At the release of Daniel Pink’s new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , he also released this short video that introduces a major concept from the book. In the video, Pink encourages the viewer/reader to ask 2 questions. The first being: “What’s your sentence?”; and the second being “Was I better today than yesterday?”. While I fully support tools that help create intrinsic motivation, I feel that the second sentence presented in the video and again in the book, allows a person to dwell too much on the past. Therefore, I would support the modification of the second senctence to read like this: “In what ways might I be better tomorrow?”. In my opinion this allows you to focus on mutiple ways to improve yourself in the future (to think like a futurist…to make current decisions in light of future effects). That be said, I also think this tool has the power to be applied to entire organizations (not just a single person). For example: schools. Schools should continually define there motivation by asking “What’s OUR sentence?” as well as continually look into multiple possibilities for improving their future by asking “In what ways might WE be better tomorrow?”.
Two questions that can change your life from Daniel Pink on Vimeo.
