Daniel Pink Drive Ted Talk

I think that the idea that I will take with me from Dan Pink's talk is that sometimes to complete tasks you have to break away from the accepted norms. In many tasks there is a clear direction to take that has been established over time and throughout trials. This is not true for all of the problems you will encounter throughout your life. Sometimes it takes looking at the borders of problem and taking elements of the given tools or directions and combining them with different things to come to the answer more quickly and more efficiently. He gave the expample of how when rewards are offered that sometimes higher rewards are worse for performance. Higher rewards have been found to be better when there is little thinking required. But, when the task requires thinking that the higher rewards are worse. I think this is because once there are high stakes you are more likely to get tunnel vision and overlook impertant facts. Dan Pink makes bridges between his idas and real examples of how they are practical  in the real world. This gives his ideas real validity in the mind of the audience because of the connections he makes because he can show people how to get things done. His presentation was pretty casual because he was just up on the stage kind of walking around and looking at every area of the audience. This helped integrate him with the audience because there was the feeling that he was talking to you personally. I think that the most important facts of the talk are that you have to analyze the whole situation before you come to a conclusion. I think this is very relavant in education because many times you are being told what to do and not to deviate from that. This however can really hinder you later in life because you won't be able to find the subliminal messages or facts that it takes to solve the problem.