Team & Operations

Drive Motivation

Name: Drive
Author: Daniel Pink
ISBN: 1594484805

Intrinsic motivation: Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose

Design for intrinsic motivation using Daniel Pink's research on Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. This skill helps your AI agent create features, team structures, and experiences that tap into what truly drives human behavior.

Drive

by Daniel Pink

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Install this skill

npx skills add wondelai/skills/drive-motivation

Key Concepts

What your agent learns

Autonomy

Give people control over their task, time, technique, and team — self-direction fuels engagement.

Mastery

Create conditions for flow and visible progress — people are driven to get better at things that matter.

Purpose

Connect work to something larger than profit — purpose maximization alongside profit maximization.

Type I vs Type X

Intrinsically motivated (Type I) people outperform extrinsically motivated (Type X) people long-term.

Goldilocks Tasks

Assign challenges that are neither too easy nor too hard — the sweet spot where flow happens.

About the Author

Daniel Pink

Five-time NYT bestselling author, former White House speechwriter

Daniel Pink is the author of five New York Times bestsellers about business, work, and behavior. He previously served as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore and his TED Talk on motivation has over 40 million views.

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Example Prompts

Try these with the skill installed

Design a gamification system based on intrinsic motivation, not just points using drive-motivation skill

Product design

Create a progress dashboard that supports mastery motivation using drive-motivation skill

Feature design

Restructure our team to increase autonomy while maintaining alignment using drive-motivation skill

Team design

Write onboarding copy that connects users to purpose, not just features using drive-motivation skill

Messaging

Install Drive Motivation

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