{"id":37717,"date":"2013-04-10T19:06:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=37717"},"modified":"2013-04-10T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:07:09","slug":"dan-ariely-what-makes-us-feel-good-about-our-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=37717","title":{"rendered":"Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_about_our_work.html\" width=\"520\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn&#8217;t just money. But it&#8217;s not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose. Behavioral economis<a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?s=Dan+Ariely\" target=\"_blank\">t Dan Ariely<\/a> presents two eye-opening experiments that reveal our unexpected and nuanced attitudes toward meaning in our work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn&#8217;t just money. But it&#8217;s not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely presents two eye-opening experiments that reveal our unexpected and nuanced attitudes toward meaning in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":722,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=722","url_meta":{"origin":37717,"position":0},"title":"Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"26\/05\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9X68dm92HVI This presentation is genial.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;all other stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/9X68dm92HVI\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16005,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=16005","url_meta":{"origin":37717,"position":1},"title":"Focus Groups Aren&#8217;t as Useful as Companies Think","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"04\/02\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Polling random people can be \"incredibly useful as a persuasive attempt to tell people what to do,\" but not really as a way to find out information as Dan Ariely argues!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;PPT\/ cool decks&quot;","block_context":{"text":"PPT\/ cool decks","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=221"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33441,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=33441","url_meta":{"origin":37717,"position":2},"title":"The Truth About Dishonesty","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"17\/09\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/XBmJay_qdNc Are you more honest than a banker? 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