We live in a fear-promoting society. It is the business of advertisers to stoke our anxieties about what we have, what we look like, and whether we are sexually adequate. A dissatisfied consumer is more apt to buy. Likewise, the purveyors of television news attempt to hold our interest by scaring us with stories of [...]
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I have recently been in a situation that has again made me contemplate the question “what motivates us”? or probably, more selfishly, “what motivates me”? You can see from the ‘ABOUT pages’ on my website that I’m not a psychologist – I’m an engineer and “motivation”, as an area of expertise, falls into the science of [...] One of the many amazing things about our society is that given any one topic there are bound to be thousands of different responses, solutions, ideas etc….rarely do we ever come to an amicable resolution in quick time. This got me thinking that a contributor to impasse is motivation – the thing that guides our [...] |
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