Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! No spoilers. Beyond amazing I enjoyed this book so very much. The characters and storyline were fantastic. The ending I did not see coming Could not put down nor did I want to. Truly Amazing and appreciated the whole story. This is going to be a must read for many many readers. Maybe even a book club pick.

As an Executive Assistant, I found this book extremely informative and helpful. I plan on grabbing a physical copy for future reference because of the value I have read within.

This book explores world of corporate excellence, offering a treasure trove of valuable advice. It's brimming with such helpful guidance that at times, the pace feels brisk to encompass it all. It's a must-read for young professionals just beginning their careers, as it provides valuable motivation tips and practical insights for advancing projects and igniting motivation.

Furthermore, it serves as an invaluable resource for effectively conveying information to ensure it catalyzes action. In summary, I recommend this book to anyone seeking to bolster their business knowledge and propel their career forward.

Title: Intrinsic Motivation
Author: Stefan Falk
Release Date: February 7th, 2023
Page Count: 278
Format: Netgalley/Audiobook
Start Date: February 16th, 2023
Finish Date: February 18th, 2023

Rating: 5 Stars

Review:

I really appreciated how realistic this book is. It doesn't sugar coat things and tell you how successful it will be if you just do this or that or the other. I really appreciated seeing the common mistakes people make. I also really appreciated seeing how to be as an employee and an employer. I don't really know how to talk too much about this book. It's packed with a lot of information. I feel more comfortable with being organized with work. I also feel like if I were ever to find myself in a leadership role, I'd know how to take care of my employees. I'd know how to make them feel heard and appreciated thanks to several pieces of advice in this book.

Intrinsic motivation is an important concept that can lead to success and satisfaction in life. While I appreciate the author's efforts to share their methods for cultivating and maintaining intrinsic motivation, I found the book difficult to get through. It seemed to promote the idea that you need to work incredibly hard and follow certain rules to be motivated, which goes against my personal beliefs. However, I recognize that others may find value in the concepts presented. Overall, while this book wasn't for me, it may be worth considering for those looking to enhance their motivation and achieve their goals.

This is a book about discovering internal motivation to help you at your career. There are practical examples and steps provided that you can take to increase your motivation. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC.

This is such a corporate bro book. Take some dude who seems charismatic, bullet point compilations of words/phrases that have been used over and over again in every career-focused book + Psych 101 concepts about motivation and then throw in some random bolded phrases for good measure, some meaningless acronyms (because corporate America loves an acronym), and a sentence or two of a random personal anecdote to be "relatable" and voila.

Hard pass.

It took me 5 minutes to read this book because there is literally no substance. I knew I was going to hate it after reading the introduction 2 months because it sounded like it was going to be a "come drink the Koolaid" type thing, and it was. It took me 2 months to start the actual book portion because I was dreading it. I was right to dread it. A lot of the advice is terrible and sounds like what the CEO would tell the employees who are being exploited for their labor to try to make them think their job doesn't suck.

So glad I don't work in this type of environment. No wonder everyone I know who works in corporate America hates it.

Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.

This book is not what I thought it would be based on the description. I was anticipating something that would help me personally be more intrinsically motivated in my own life as a whole. This book is heavily focuses on your work life (which is a big portion of most people’s lives). Much of the advice is tough-love and tries to be one size fits all. However, it did not resonate with me. A lot of the advice does not apply to my work life especially because I am at a very flat organization without much structure. A lot of the advice would be more relevant to those father along or higher up in their careers, especially at the very end of the book.

This book probably works for some but I did not come away with the applicable advice I was hoping for.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

DNF. This book didn't work for me, but may be right for some. It offers no excuses, tough love advice. It attempts to be one size fits all, but is certainly best for neurotypical people. I appreciate not making excuses for ourselves, but don't think the advice will work for everyone. Even if not explicitly stated, it encourages work becoming an outsized portion of our lives. I did like some advice, like focusing on the process and completing simple tasks right away. I listened to the audiobook, which was well-narrated and would be excellent for listening to on a commute.

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for providing this ARC. All thoughts are my own.

This book was motivational and practical. I loved that is had realistic approaches and practical implementation. The author has years of practice in his own life as well as clients and I appreciate it was not preachy or too direct. The audio narration was easy to listen to and the progression of the book was well developed. I found it enjoyable to note take while listening and apply to my life.

Stefan Falk's INTRINIC MOTIVATION delivers long-lasting benefits as well as an immediate, great read. Drawing on years of experience as human, management consultant, and thinker, Falk discusses the essential habits of living your excitement in doing whatever you undertake with focus, attention, and commitment to thoroughly enjoy what you are doing -- and thus, live life fully and wholeheartedly. Unlike many how-to guides, Falk has walked the talk, enthuses and inspires with stories of others who are working with passion and excitement, oriented more to their curiosity, passions, and drives than to what is offered in terms of status, money, and worldly success. The timing for this book could not be better as we're collectively figuring out who we want to be and what we want to make of our vastly different worlds. Thoughtout, I felt like I was having coffee with a very smart, very personable mentor. I received a copy of this book and these opinions are my own, unbiased thoughts.

I give this book 3 stars and would say it’s fine. I don’t think this book offers anything new or groundbreaking that we haven’t heard or read before. I’d love to get the author’s take on what he thinks is unique about his book or the information he presents. I could be missing something. It might be worth noting that many of the charts did not translate onto a kindle and were illegible which was unfortunate. I tried playing with the font of the text on kindle and it didn’t change it. There were some useful “nuggets” throughout that I jotted down to be used at work and for that I’m thankful.

*ARC Review*

I enjoyed this book! As someone who is on the verge of leaving grad school and starting "real life", I was excited to pick this book up. It gave me some good skills to keep a level head as I start my first professional role. I was glad to see some of the science behind intrinsic motivation and the antidotes were engaging. I didn't necessarily agree with everything the book had to say, but that is the beauty of it! I can take what I want and create a method that works for me.

If you're picking up a book entitled Intrinsic Motivation you're likely hoping to find ways to motivate yourself or others. The author offers a tough love approach to the topic with tools that range from easy to implement to those that will require a real change and digging deep into what you're willing to do to get what you want. Ultimately, the reader will probably ask themselves the most important question, what is it that is motivating to me and what is demotivating to me and how do I put myself in position to get more of what I want and avoid what I don't want. The author's strategies about managing up and such can then be helpful.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

My father once said he’d keep working at his job as long as he was learning and having fun. This book suggests that, with the right approach, you never stop learning and having fun at your job—no matter what you’re doing.

The book offers a whole raft of strategies for motivating yourself. While you may find much of this tried-and-true advice elsewhere, Falk’s upbeat approach is refreshing in the world of productivity books.

He suggests that you can “rewire” your brain to look for the fun in the work, and train it to focus on “exciting outcomes” of what you do.

If your internal motivation is lagging at work, you’ll find strategies in this book to power through.

This is a treasure-trove of ideas for getting unstuck and moving forward. What I found as I read these quick chapters is that some stood out immediately as great ideas I wanted to try right away, while others sounded less relevant to my immediate circumstances, and a few seemed truly unpleasant. I really appreciate this level of variety - this seems like a book one can dip in and out of in different seasons of life and find a few ideas to refresh perspective right away. And what a fun conversational world this will be if we all adopt his suggestion about sharing part of your day with others (kids especially) in a way that makes being a grown up seem like a good and fun thing. We could all use more of that.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing a copy of this book.

Intrinsic Motivation. I feel like this is a perfect way to start 2023- finding intrinsic motivation.

Although I dont love my job, I understand its something I do and not who I am, I have realized that I used to love to work and love what I do. So this book helps to open my eyes and find inspiration and intrinsic motivation.

I remember hearing about Stefan Falk when I was in the military and remember his books being highly recommended for professional development. This topic of intrinsic motivation is TOUGH. How do you become intrinsically motivated? How do you get others to? THAT is the big question. This book really makes you stop and think about the little things that you're doing and what may be stopping you from true happiness/success/fulfillment. I recommend this to other military members and now professionals in my 2nd career life, post military.

I... did not like this. There is some good advice in there, but it is unfortunately overshadowed by the bad.
I could not possibly get over the part where the author claims - in a chapter supposed to be about Diversity in the workplace! - that "preserving the status quo" is a "much more common and thus represents an even bigger problem" than race, ethnicity and gender-based discrimination at work.

Seriously.

I was intrigued by this book because intrinsic motivation is what drives our discretionary effort at work -- are we willing to give more because it motivates and feeds us in some way. The book is laid out in clear chapters with tools and tips so made it easy to follow. Some of the content was very light (such as the chapter on diversity) and when I read it started as a pamphlet at McKinsey Consulting where he was working it started making sense to me why some of it felt light. Overall, I am not sure if this book is for everyone - some of his tips I found kind of revolting and some of them helpful. There is a huge push toward "tough love" and "managing up" and just kind of "sucking it up" for the job. I am not sure if this leads to greater intrinsic motivation - but rather could help you survive any job you are in.

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.