What Motivates Us

Do you know what motivates you? Watch this amazingly animated video below to find out.

Drive – The surprising truth about what motivates us (Dan Pink)

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I just love watching the fellow draw and illustrate the lecture as Dan talks in the background.

Any new observations about what motivates you?

P.S. If you liked this, check out Dan’s book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.

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Believe in Me movie

It’s hard to turn a basketball team with a losing record into a team that wins. Not only do you need to hone the skills of the players, you also need to build their confidence and get them to gel as a team.

Then throw in a coach who thought he was heading to his dream job of coaching the boy’s team but is instead ‘stuck’ with the girl’s team… in small town Oklahoma in 1964. An era when girl’s sports were not seen as equal to boy’s sports and married girls were ineligible to play.

What do you get? One inspiring movie!

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You’re Never Too Old to Believe

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

95 year-old Ida Keeling is America’s oldest sprinter. She starting running at age 67. She may not run fast, but run she does.

Here’s a video about her:

Why wait until you’re a bit older when you can start now?!

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Believe in Yourself

“You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.”
- Denis Waitley

Logan and Noah Miller are two people who live this quote, especially the trickier “believing is seeing” part.  In their book – “You’re In or You’re In The Way” – the Miller brothers relive the physical and mental journey it took to accomplish their goal of creating a movie about their Dad.

Not only were Logan and Noah rookies, having never made a film before (let alone written one) but they also had no financing whatsoever. Just a dream…

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Are You This Passionate?

This little kid gives it his all while conducting his virtual orchestra. We all have that in us. As we get older there is a tendency to focus on making a living, instead of what we love to do.

As you watch, try to recall times in your life when you gave yourself fully to something. What are you doing when you’re fully absorbed in the activity? What would you do for free? These may be clues to your passion

Enjoy the video below:

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