Finding motivation with Dan Pink

In this great TED Talk, Dan Pink talks about motivation and incentives for right-brained workers. .

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Right brained motivation

In this great TED Talk, Dan Pink talks about motivation and incentives for right-brained workers. Since we seem so right-brained with ADHD, Dan’s advice rings very true indeed.

Since Dan dropped out of law school and energetically talks about motivation, I do wonder whether Dan may well be ADHD himself...

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Andrew Lewis is an Adult ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over 16,000 hours of experience in coaching over 600 adults with ADHD. Andrew helps entrepreneurs and creatives with ADHD thrive and achieve wellbeing and is always happy to have a free chat to discuss coaching. Andrew ran a major ADHD support group and even an ADHD diagnostic clinic for a while. Andrew is an adult ADHD Coach backed with business expertise from a twenty years career in software, from roles in programming, through marketing, sales at IBM, then to running a few software start-ups.

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