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How to make rational decisions
The role of biases in decision-making
The impact of social norms on decision-making
Why is it that we are all born with limitless potential, yet few people fulfill those possibilities?
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Our motivation is our most valuable commodity. Multiplied only by action, its value fluctuates with how we invest our attention. In our world of exponential change and ever-increasing complexity, the power rests with those who act with self-determination and persistence.
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Understanding the principles of motivation gives us the capacity to find workable solutions to real-world motivational problems.
Studying and applying motivational science can also help us reverse or cope with impulsive urges, habitual experiences, goal failure, counterproductive functionin...
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Needs are internal motives that energize, direct and sustain behaviour.
They generate strivings necessary for the maintenance of life as in physiological needs, and for the promotion of growth and wellbeing as in psychological and implicit needs.
The drive theory of motivation...
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Personality theory and research show that we are, in fact, motivated in different ways based on our personality traits.
A high level of a particular trait will often make us act as the trait implies: we will be more open to experience, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable, and neurotic.
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Change is rarely simple or linear.
It is difficult to find the motivation to engage in activities that are not intrinsically motivating.
What we need is to move away from extrinsically motivated action, e.g., when we have to do something because we fear consequences, and toward introj...
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Motivation can be experienced as either internal in the form of push motivation or external as in the case of pull motivation
Push motivation is described in terms of biological variables originating in a personβs brain and nervous system and psychological variables that re...
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Goals, like mindset, beliefs, expectations, or self-concept, are sources of internal motives and are together referred to as cognition.
As a cognitive mental event, a goal is a "spring to action" that functions like a moving force that energizes and directs our behaviour in purposive ways
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Emotions are considered motivational states because they generate bursts of energy that get our attention and cause our reactions to significant events in our lives
They synchronize four interrelated aspects of experience:
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Reason why we should care about learning: it is a source of limitless joy.
Exercise your curiosity. You might feel fatigued or like youβre not up for the challenge, but with practice, patience, and effort, we are all capable of learning.
Any development we see was at first just an idea. We all were born naked and did not have the possessions, the hair, the clothes, and the relationships that formed as we reached our adulthood. We started from nothing and inside nothing (zero) there lies infinity.
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Vulnerability is a double-edged sword. Those who protect themselves to avoid getting hurt, fail to appreciate intimacy and close relationships.
Everyone is vulnerable, no matter how much they try to avoid it. We are born vulnerable and stay that way for our entire childhood.Β Our relationshi...
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