It would be so much easier if there was a button for everything. A button to press when you need more money, a button that will tell you the right answer or the right thing to say, even a snap of your fingers would be just fine. It is the same for motivation, when you just want a task to be done. A button would be so much easier, to either get the job done or tell you how to do it right. Too bad there are no buttons to answer all of life’s questions, which is why we need motivation. We all have goals, the difference is whether that goal was set by someone else, like money, or if it is something that you strive for yourself.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Understanding Internals
I have been considering psychological concepts involved in learning and understanding the environment, such as personality and the way individuals learn. As pointed out the other day, it seems that I have a lot of ‘drive’ and a lot less emotion. Might this be part of my personality? Is it something that makes me who I am? I would have to say it does affect who I am and how I live my life. This internal drive has allowed me to be quite intrinsic, and external (extrinsic) motivation only fuels this need to learn. It would appear that Drive Reduction Theory applies more to my life than Harlow’s monkeys, although my reward is internal, the ‘satisfaction of a job well done’. I guess this can be taken in both a positive and a negative way. On one hand, I have potential to do tasks that require a lot of dedication – mostly academic and work related. On the other hand, it would seem that I skipped a step along the road in developmental psychology, and will most likely skip over some further experiences that lie outside of the world of personal achievement in the future. So does this shape my personality? I suppose it would, my ‘drive’ is really who I am, it is a part in at least one subcategory of each of the five personality categories: unconscious motives, the self and conscious awareness, all of the cognitive subcategories, abilities, and reward/punishment and observable behaviour. Since drive is the majority of who I am, I wonder what will happen if that drive ‘runs out’, if I eventually crash.
It would be so much easier if there was a button for everything. A button to press when you need more money, a button that will tell you the right answer or the right thing to say, even a snap of your fingers would be just fine. It is the same for motivation, when you just want a task to be done. A button would be so much easier, to either get the job done or tell you how to do it right. Too bad there are no buttons to answer all of life’s questions, which is why we need motivation. We all have goals, the difference is whether that goal was set by someone else, like money, or if it is something that you strive for yourself.
It would be so much easier if there was a button for everything. A button to press when you need more money, a button that will tell you the right answer or the right thing to say, even a snap of your fingers would be just fine. It is the same for motivation, when you just want a task to be done. A button would be so much easier, to either get the job done or tell you how to do it right. Too bad there are no buttons to answer all of life’s questions, which is why we need motivation. We all have goals, the difference is whether that goal was set by someone else, like money, or if it is something that you strive for yourself.
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