Excerpt from Drive - Dan Pink

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The desire for intellectual challenge - that is, the urge to master something new and engaging - was the best predictor of productivity. Scientists motivated by this intrinsic desire filed significantly more patents than those whose main motivation was money, even controlling for the amount of effort each group expended.

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