Final Blog

Purpose is more like an intrinsic reward instead of an if-then reward, which may be part of why it is so powerful.  Barb you stated that there should be no more if-then rewards.   That I disagree with, I understand where you are coming from, but there is still a place for if-then rewards maybe use them less would be a better statement.  I like how Jacque and Barb stated that we should let students make mistakes and learn from them.   I think when we learn from a mistake it will be engrained in our heads forever in our long-term memory.  These are the life lessons that we will pass on to our students and our children.  I as well as Jacque like the three laws of mastery and will remember them from this book.  What I did not like about the book was what I found confusing.  I think Pink could have found better ways to label his ideas.  All of the numbers, roman numerals, and letters confused me at times.  I believe if he would have had specific names for them and it would have been less confusing it would have made more sense, but overall I would say the book had more positives than negatives and it showed how motivation really works.