What makes us feel good about our work?

It is not just the money that can make us feel good about our job, it’s a lot more complex than that. In his TED Talk, Dan Ariely, Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Economics tells us about experiments – involving Lego robots and origami – and points out that finding the meaning in our work is essential to our happiness.

Ariely describes how those experiments showed that people are motivated to perform better when their work is acknowledged. With no acknowledgement, the motivation significantly decreases.

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