What a celebration life is when … and, it turns out, many folks tag the rest of that sentence in their own customized way; as well they ought. Having just finished Daniel Pink’s Drive and now more than halfway through Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers (what kismet to devour these paired back to back!) I’m reviewing comprehensively what motivates and what best creates success. This finds me filling in the rest of that sentence with: it’s all you want to do is devour and extend whatever it is that excites you.
Good thing, too; since the world (as Friedman states) is now flat. It’s no longer a paradigm for our country to be a choice between manufacturing and service … and all we have left is service. Our paradigm is now knowledge and service. Are we shy? Why does there seem so rarely conversation that we’re in a knowledge economy?
Anyway, Pink’s dualism of algorithmic (left brain) and heuristic (right brain) captivated me; as did Gladwell’s 10K+ hours across 10+ years. But the dynamic that struck me most was each one had a trilogy. For Pink it was purpose, mastery and autonomy. For Gladwell it was effort/reward, complexity … and autonomy!
I see Gladwell’s effort/reward trumped by Pink’s sense of purpose; both swimming, as it were, in similar water (but the former is from the industrial revolutions' languaging). Likewise with complexity and mastery. So with only somewhat differing language (they both use autonomy specifically) both construct what Gladwell refers to as “meaningfulness”.
And what does that do? Opens up the timely opportunity in this newly knowledge based society to create whatever you wish with some real promise of being able to do well with it if one is willing to be that subjects' student hereafter. Happily, I can live with that (I began to years ago!).
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