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We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money-the carrot-and-the-stick approach. That's a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in his new book, DRIVE: The Surpring Truth About What Motivates Us.

The key to high performance and satisfaction is intrinsic, internal motivation: the desire to follow your own interests and understand the benefits in them for you. And Pink has discovered thirty years of scientific data that confirm these ideas and show an exciting way forward. Pink lays out the hard science for these surprising insights, describes how people and corporations can embrace such ideas (some of them are already doing it), offers details about how we can master them, and provides concrete examples on how intrinsic motivation works on the job, at home, and in ourselves.

Daniel H. Pink is the author of A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.

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The Chase Challenge ends at midnight this Friday, December 11th and the top one hundred organizations with the most votes will win $25,000.

It's a very close race and they need your vote if SFT is going to secure a spot in the top 100. There's no donation needed, just the click of your mouse: http://studentsforafreetibet.org/chase.

Please also help by :

1. Updating your Facebook status, sending an email to your friends, and tweeting about the contest. Here is a sample note you can share:

" I just voted for SFT to win $25K on Facebook. It's free, takes 30 seconds & goes to a great cause: http://studentsforafreetibet.org/chase."

2. Posting individual messages on your friends' walls reminding them to vote.

3. Voting for our friends: You have 20 votes, so please consider voting for some of these organizations too:

Tibetan Youth Association
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/1303503?m=907f3de1

International Tibetan Independence Movement
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/1165704?m=907f3de1

Tibet Oral History Project
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/228888?m=907f3de1

Tibet Aid
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/207597?m=907f3de1

Tibet House
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/329472?m=907f3de1

Tibet Fund
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/707590?m=907f3de1

Atlas Corp
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/374595?m=907f3de1

All t-shirts at the very cool threadless site will be $9 for 24 hours only (Starts Friday 11/27 12:01 am CT, ends 11/27 11:59 pm CT)

Get the holiday gift list out, fire up the Internet early in the mornin', pour some cocoa and go!