Campus Safari #2: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose

At the very beginning of the school year, my Wellness professor recommended a book to us. He said it would help us understand our course material better but also provide us with some important information to apply to our own life. This book is Drive written by Daniel Pink. The book focuses on the subject of motivation. It talks about how some are motivated by external reward such as money or power while others have more internal reasons to be motivated. Either way these motivators are our personal secrets to “high performance” in all that we do. Pink says that there are three aspects of motivation: autonomy, mastery and purpose. This book is filled with ideas on how to achieve the ultimate levels of motivation. In both Wellness and Inquiry we focused on what motivates us and why so I believe this book is very relevant to those classes. I can apply what I already know about the subject while reading this book if I decided to do so. Locating the book was very simple, especially after having our INQ class at the library. Overall, I am fairly self-sufficient when it comes to using the library.