I’m not sure where I first heard about Drive, though I imagine it was on some best sellers list and I kept it in mind. I’m not normally a fan of anything touching any periphery of the self-help genre, though the concept seemed interesting enough for me to check it out.
Having read the book in rather short order, there is admittedly not all that much to the science: it’s generally better to want to do things internally rather than to be forced or tricked into getting the particular task done. Rewards can sometimes cheapen the goal, and thereby be a de-motivational tool.
What’s great about the book is that the author, Daniel Pink, keeps everything very simple and very organized, and never goes off the deep end. Drive clocks in around 250 pages in the hardcover edition, though a good portion of that are in references and a variety of different summaries, re-caps, and applications of the book’s theories. It all reads very easily and goes by rather quickly.
I’m not going to divulge any of the secrets within, though I’m sure you can get the gist easily enough from reviews online or by other sources. Indeed, Pink doesn’t offer too much in the way of his own personal theories, rather his art is more in accessibly refactoring the science which has been available for decades from some otherwise more obscure sources. Even so, Drive is well worth a look, and I suggest you get into it when you get a chance. It’s personally given me some hope, and some great thoughts on how to keep on pushing forward in the best ways possible.