by Edward L. Deci, Richard Flaste
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In a book that challenges authoritarian thinking about motivation, a distinguished social psychologist offers an alternative to current reward/punishment theory, which, far from anarchy, espouses our ordered, internalized sense of freedom, responsibility, and commitment.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 WHY WE DO WANT TO READ THIS BOOK, 2008-11-04
Why We Do What We Do is not a creative or orginal title; however, it is an accurate description of what this book is about. If you want to understand how motivation works, both intrinsic (internal) and extrinsic (external), as well as the power and importance of self-motivation, it's an absolute must-read.
While the author, Edward L. Deci, offers the results of years of research on the subjects of autonomy, competency, and relatedness (which he says are all human neeeds), he provides stimulating insight into control and compliance, and their effects on one's authentic (i.e. "true") self and the resulting behaviors that are inevitably influenced by them, as well as incentive and instruction for teachers, parents, and managers to be autonomy supportive.
To me the heart of this fascinating, enlightening, and highly self-educational book revolves around the results of a recent psychological study by Richard Ryan and Tim Kasser who founded the 6 types of life aspirations which are: money, fame, beauty (the extrinsic motivations), and meaningful relationships, personal growth, and contribution to community (the intrinsic motivations). They noted that when people organize their behavior in terms of intrinsic strivings (relative to extrinsic strivings) they seem more content - they feel better about who they are and display more evidence of pyschological health.
That should be all the motivation you need to purchase this book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent resource for psychology course I teach, 2008-09-15
This is an excellenct resource for Introduction to Psychology I teach at a local Community College, students love the information I brought to class using this book. Great read.
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We can motivate people better by supporting and enhancing their autonomy, 2008-05-27
This is an important book that describes how people in one up-position can motivate people in one-down position (for example, how parents or teachers can motivate their children or students). Basically, people are better motivated to perform certain task if their autonomy, competence, and relatedness to other people are supported and enhanced. The book covers many experiments that has been done in motivation psychology since 1970's. For example, what happens when you reward a person to perform a task when they are intrinsically motivated to do so?
It goes without saying that people are more motivated to perform certain tasks if they are inherently motivated in performing that task. However, interestingly, rewards such as money may be detrimental to maintaining inherent motivation. For example, if you reward a person to do a task that they are already motivated to do and then withdraw the reward, the motivation to do the task actually decreases. Although the person was originally motivated to perform the task without the presence of a reward, after giving the reward the person is not motivated as much to perform the task if the reward is not present (this may be due to the possibility that the individual has now become conditioned to the presence of a reward for performing that task and thus automatically expects a reward to be present).
Of course, one can always motivate people by rewarding them with money, status, power, etc., however, the performance of the behavior is not maintained once you withdraw such reward unless their autonomy, self-competence, and relatedness to people was enhanced during the performance of the task.
I gave the book 5 stars because of the importance of the subjects covered. However, the book is sometimes a little boring to read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Autonomy, competence and relatedness, 2007-07-12
This is a very interesting book to read if you are a leader in your organization, a coach, a parent or have a role leading or motivating people.
It does not have an easy flowing style and could well be re-edited and updated to include the changes technology has brought up in how we communicate and create social networks.
A lot of emphasis is put on self-motivation and respecting autonomy, yet I could not envision how to apply it in the business world.
The consideration of three fundamental human needs: autonomy, competency and relatedness is very interesting.
a good read to understand how to encourage autonomy. I wonder about its applicability for self-determination in groups of people, within an organization or a society.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Great Book, 2007-05-14
This was a wonderful book that really helped me out with motivating my students. It also helped with my classroom management. I would recommend this book to any teacher.
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