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Despite the burgeoning suspicion of popular psych books that are subtiotled “the surprising ~ ”, and despite the truth about what motivates us ''not'' being that surprising — who ''doesn’t'' want “autonomy, mastery, and purpose” in love, life and vocation? — {{author|Daniel Pink}}’s {{br¬Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us}} is a timely and rewarding book — especially now, in this mad COVID inflexion point, where the world is up-ended, research programmes are in crisis, all bets are off and — who knows? — perhaps this time it might really be different<ref>It won’t be.</ref> and we might finally be moving to some new sunlit upland paradigm of enlightened employment. | {{a|review| | ||
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}}Despite the burgeoning suspicion of popular psych books that are subtiotled “the surprising ~ ”, and despite the truth about what motivates us ''not'' being that surprising — who ''doesn’t'' want “autonomy, mastery, and purpose” in love, life and vocation? — {{author|Daniel Pink}}’s {{br¬Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us}} is a timely and rewarding book — especially now, in this mad COVID inflexion point, where the world is up-ended, research programmes are in crisis, all bets are off and — who knows? — perhaps this time it might really be different<ref>It won’t be.</ref> and we might finally be moving to some new sunlit upland paradigm of enlightened employment. | |||
The [[JC]] likes to keep his glass half-full as you know, readers, but he is a perma-bear about human nature all the same. It will take more than the [[Gluckstein candle problem]] and the total falsification of the commuter ethos to change things, but we can only hope, and Mr Pink’s book can be our narrative as we do. | The [[JC]] likes to keep his glass half-full as you know, readers, but he is a perma-bear about human nature all the same. It will take more than the [[Gluckstein candle problem]] and the total falsification of the commuter ethos to change things, but we can only hope, and Mr Pink’s book can be our narrative as we do. | ||