Video: What motivates people?

[highlander]

• I thought this was a really interesting video on what motivates people. It takes a few minutes to get going but there is some fascinating information

 

[Cellmold]

I've always been championing this kind of purpose-driven motivation for years.

This is readily observable to anyone who engages with life outside the motivation to work for money as security.

 

[SiegfriedSchtauffen]

Like the developers who were mentioned in the video, I've spent a fair amount of time with opensource development in my free time and I could list a bunch of different positive and negative motivators that drove me (or forced me) in different stages of my life. The mentioned method is indeed a nice technique that helps extracting more work or more good/creative/innovative ideas from certain types of people. However the video only scratches the surface in explanation and wrongly assumes only good intentions behind this technique used by some companies.