TED

Todays TED video was about a man named Dan Pink explaining the ways and works of motivation. He started off explaining a problem a scientist made called the candle problem where you had to get the candle on the wall without letting the wax drip down and all you get is a set of matches with a box full of nails and the candle. He said he told one group of people that if they finish first they would get $20 as a motivation and he just told the second group to finish it fast. He said the second group without the motivation won because they weren't under a lot of pressure as losing and winning $20 and they thought of how to do it but the first group was too focused and didn't think out of the box. He said the answer was to take out the pins needles from the box and but the candle on top of the box was would be nailed to the wall with the needles. He said he tried this again but took the needles out of the box for a different 2 groups and the motivated group won because the answer was really clear because there wasn't any needles in the box so they just raced ahead to do it. he said this happened many times for the past 40 years and i have to agree that i have experienced too because in Math class i was versing one of the smartest kid in a multiplication question and the winner got a gummy worm, i had to erase many times because i was rushing and there were a lot of tricky parts but my opponent rushed too and we both took really long to figure it out.
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