Excerpt from Drive - Dan Pink

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For routine tasks, which aren't very interesting and don't demand much creative thinking, rewards can provide a small motivational booster shot without the harmful side effects... But when the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill a large reward led to poorer performance.

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