Daniel Pink TED Talk

1. What are your take-aways from this video?
I feel that for me it is now important to figure out what does motivated me. If I know what motivates me, then I can learn better, preform better, and be more content with my life. I think that as school and work uses this to their advantage, people will become happier and do more with their life.
2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
He changes the volume of his speech in order to emphasize specific parts. He also used images and his hands in order to create imagery for the audience. He also makes it feel as though he is making a case and that the audience is the jury. This puts the audience in a position of  having to be convinced. He then uses facts and science in order to convince the audience. Since their mind is open to being convinced they tend to agree with what he says.
3. What is his/her presentation style?
He is very fact based. He, like in his book, tries to convince the left brained thinkers of his point. He uses science, numbers, facts, and experiments. This if very logic based not emotionally based. This appeals to logical people. This then convinces the logical people of an illogical idea.
4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
People, business, and schools need to apply this into their philosophies. I don't think that we can truly understand ourselves if we cannot determine what motivates us. Some people assumed we had similar motivations as animals (sex, food, rewards) but others assumed that humans are naturally good but we corrupt each other and ourselves. I feel that this is a balance between these two philosophies. We do have some natural motivations but there is something different in humans that gives us the desire to learn and be challenged. If we understand this, we could have more successful schooling, better businesses, and happier people.