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Daniel Pink

by Daniel Pink

For the last 25 years, I've been writing books about the human condition -- from the elements of motivation to the science of timing to the emotion of regret. This channel is where the research gets personal. The science of focus, better decisions, and getting good at things without grinding yourself into dust. If that's the stuff you think about at 11pm, you're in the right place. Links: Website: https://danpink.com

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  1. How to Persuade Others with the Right Questions Jedi Mind Tricks from Daniel H Pink - Big Think

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  2. One Word that Will Change Your Life

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  3. How to Make a Great Tagline

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  4. How to Spend Money So It Actually Makes You Happier

    Get Your Free Spending Scorecard: https://www.danpink.com/scorecard/Uploaded 05-05-26You're probably better at earning money than you are at spending it.The research is clear: it's not how much you spend that determines your happiness — it's how you spend it. So I put together 5 questions, all...

  5. Driving Employee Engagement Daniel Pink

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  6. 11 Essential Books For 2026 (Summarized In 12 Minutes)

    In this video, I share 11 books to read in 2026—not as a routine list, but as a response to the world we’re stepping into.Uploaded 25-02-26Work is evolving. Technology is accelerating. Attention is fragmented. And the skills that carried us this far may not be the ones that carry us forward. So...

  7. Daniel Pink Teaches Sales and Persuasion - MasterClass Trailer

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  8. The 6 Skills AI Will Never Replace

    What should humans do when AI can do almost everything?Uploaded 12-03-26AI tools can now generate text, images, code, music, and ideas at astonishing speed. If machines are getting better at producing answers, what will humans still be good for?In this video, I walk through six human abilities…

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  9. Daniel Pink commencement speech: Regret and the good life

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  10. How the Most Creative People Get Their Breakthroughs (It Isn't Hard Work)

    In this video, I'm tackling a question that's been bugging me for years: why do your best ideas always seem to show up at the exact wrong moment? Not when you're sitting at your desk trying to be brilliant — but in the shower, on a walk, right as you're drifting off to sleep.Uploaded…

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  11. SXSW Interactive 2015 - Daniel Pink Fear, Shame, Empathy and More Ways to Change Behavior

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  12. The Most Dangerous Advice Smart People Believe

    Subscribe to my newsletter: https://danielpink.substack.com/Uploaded 14-05-26If you liked this video, more from David and me:Stop Trying to Have Good Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DozhVaF6jhUThe Bored Engineer Who Saved Nintendo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xjbyzc2mCkDavid Epstein's...

  13. Why Taste Matters More Than Skill

    Subscribe to my newsletter: https://danielpink.substack.com/Uploaded 21-08-26AI can now make almost anything — 100 logos from one sentence, a song in seconds, three times as many books published as before ChatGPT. But when making gets cheap, judgment gets priceless, and the only thing separating...

  14. Why Forcing Yourself To Work... Never Works

    Subscribe to my newsletter: https://danielpink.substack.com/Uploaded 08-07-26What if the way we motivate people is mostly wrong?That was the argument at the heart of Drive. But fifteen years later, too many companies, schools, and families stubbornly cling to the old ways.So, I made a video...

  15. OMG, you're in charge: MCAD commencement speech - part 2

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  16. Why The World Cup Is Not Really About Soccer...

    Subscribe to my newsletter: https://danielpink.substack.com/Uploaded 18-07-26In October 2005, a soccer player took a microphone into a locker room and said something that changed his country.I've been thinking about that moment all month, because as I watched the World Cup unfold across North...

  17. 16 Things Everybody Should Know How to Do

    There are certain skills that can change the way you work, think, and live — and most of us were never taught them. In this video, I share 16 things I believe everyone should know how to do, drawn from decades of research on human behavior and performance.Uploaded 08-04-26Some of these will...

  18. OMG, you're in charge: MCAD commencement speech - part 1

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  19. Write to Your Future Self - CRAZY Results!

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  20. 6 Things You Should Never Do in Public

    Subscribe to my newsletter: https://danielpink.substack.com/Uploaded 17-08-26We all know that feeling — someone clips their nails on the train or takes a speakerphone call in a quiet car, and you wonder: is there actually a right way to behave in public? Turns out, yes. Sociologists and…

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  21. 30 Cheat Codes to Beat Every Level of Life

    Get the list of all 30 Cheat Codes: https://www.danpink.com/life-cheat-codes/Uploaded 18-09-26It’s free and you can reference back to this without having to watch the video again.Video games have cheat codes. So does life. The difference is that nobody hands you the list.These are 30 of the ones...

  22. 3 Ways to Ask for Help Like a PRO

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  23. This is how an empty chair can help you do your job even better

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  24. Daniel Pink: The Puzzle of Motivation

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  25. Can't Focus? Watch This Before You Sit Down to Work.

    Grab the free flow cheat sheet here: https://danpink.com/flowUploaded 29-05-26When we sit down to do great work, we often walk away having done only a fraction of it. Then we blame ourselves — our discipline, our willpower, our "focus." That's a mistake -- and it's holding us back. I've spent...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

For the last 25 years, I've been writing books about the human condition -- from the elements of motivation to the science of timing to the emotion of regret.

This channel is where the research gets personal. The science of focus, better decisions, and getting good at things without grinding yourself into dust. If that's the stuff you think about at 11pm, you're in the right place.

Links: Website: https://danpink.com

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Daniel Pink

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