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[[File:Candle donut.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[candle problem]] and a [[donut]], yesterday.]] | [[File:Candle donut.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[candle problem]] and a [[donut]], yesterday.]] | ||
}}Despite the burgeoning suspicion of popular psych books that are subtitled “''The Surprising ~ ''”,<ref>For example, since you ask, {{br|Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us}}, {{br|Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don't Make Sense}}, {{br|The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor}}, {{br|The Surprising Science of Meetings}}, to name but four.</ref> and despite the truth about what motivates us ''not'' being that surprising — I mean, 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 [[This time is different|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. | }}Despite the burgeoning suspicion of popular psych books that are subtitled “''The Surprising ~ ''”,<ref>For example, since you ask, {{br|Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us}}, {{br|Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don't Make Sense}}, {{br|The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor}}, {{br|The Surprising Science of Meetings}}, to name but four.</ref> and despite the truth about what motivates us ''not'' being that surprising — I mean, 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 [[This time is different|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. |