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Comment on DRiVE thru by yanivco

yanivco — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:14:07 +0000

Perhaps I was a bit too harsh
Partly because I’ve been waiting to read this book for a while and had great expectations.
Storytelling and popularizing scientific research are indeed important and Daniel Pink (and others you mentioned) do it extremely well (which is why they’re able to sell books). However, I think a person like Pink who immersed himself in so much research about motivation would have some personal say in the book. Instead, he chose to rephrase the thoughts of others and I still think that’s a miss…one doesn’t need to be a scientist, professor, researcher, etc. to be able to say something original…especially if he later presents himself as an “expert” on the subject.

Comment on DRiVE thru by Mario Herger

Mario Herger — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:53:59 +0000

I wouldn’t be so harsh with my judgement. Many authors around interesting topics have no original thoughts or research. Malcom Gladwell, Dan Pink, Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman, Jonah Berger, Alfie Kohn etc. rely a lot on existing research (and they also conduct interviews). But what they do is make this disseminated and often pretty scientific material accessible for the rest of us, tell stories, and out the material into context. That is a huge value in itself.
Which does not make the works of Dan Ariely or Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi less important. They are good story tellers too with the advantage to tap into their own research. BUT: as professors at some respected universities, they do have access to vast resources that allow them to do the research. After all, most of the execution and grinding is done (under their supervision) by undergraduates, doctoral students, and other research assistants.
Dan’s work has done insofar some very valuable work, as it has brought motivation and behavioral science in the middle of the popular discourse – and paved the way for the public perception of gamification.