Finding motivation with Dan Pink

In this great TED Talk, Dan Pink talks about motivation and incentives for right-brained workers. .

ADHD Coaching

Clients see real wins in weeks - focus develops, goals stick, success grows

Written by
Andrew Lewis
ADHD Business Coach with 16,000+ hours of ADHD coaching experience

Right brained motivation

In this great TED Talk, Dan Pink talks about motivation and incentives for right-brained workers. Since we seem so right-brained with ADHD, Dan’s advice rings very true indeed.

Since Dan dropped out of law school and energetically talks about motivation, I do wonder whether Dan may well be ADHD himself...

Share this post

Andrew Lewis is an Adult ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over 16,000 hours of experience in coaching over 600 adults with ADHD. Andrew helps entrepreneurs and creatives with ADHD thrive and achieve wellbeing and is always happy to have a free chat to discuss coaching. Andrew ran a major ADHD support group and even an ADHD diagnostic clinic for a while. Andrew is an adult ADHD Coach backed with business expertise from a twenty years career in software, from roles in programming, through marketing, sales at IBM, then to running a few software start-ups.

Read more about Andrew

Facebook . Instagram . X . LinkedIn . YouTube - Pinterest

Is Elon Musk ADHD A coach's view
Elon Musk certainly shows quirky, maverick, rebellious ADHD traits at times
Microbiome affects our ADHD brains too
Our microbiome is instrumental in our mood, cognition and health. Treat it carefully
ADHD Procrastinators video
Procrastination has been the bane of my life, how has it affected you?
ADHD and addictions
If we are ADHD we are at great risk of addiction, and it's not surprising
ADHD Brain waves
ADHD differences are not only about dopamine but about different electrical signalling too
Stephen Tonti on ADHD
An energetic and insightful TEDx talk from an ADHD entrepreneur.
Inanimate objects
What happens when everything is connected?
Stephen Pinker on genetic inheritance
Great talk on genetic influences from Steven Pinker
Business start up team
New business can shape their businesses more with ADHD sensibilities.
Learning to be happy
Positive psychology, a new scientific field is just a decade old. Finally we are studying happiness,
I'm bored, I'm ADHD
I get bored, very bored, painfully bored but I'm not allowed to talk about it.
Talks with other ADHD adults
Other adults with ADHD provide the greatest insight
Association of Coaching
SimplyWellbeing ADHD Coaching logo
Copyright © 2026 SimplyWellbeing

Website designed, written and created by Andrew Lewis, using Wordpress and Oxygen

49 Station Road, Polegate, East Sussex, BN26 6EA, United Kingdom

Association of Coaching
linkedin facebook pinterest youtube rss twitter instagram facebook-blank rss-blank linkedin-blank pinterest youtube twitter instagram