Morning musings: Motivation is a scarce resource. Why do some harbour more than others? Can motivation be cultivated, or is it innate? Further, can motivation be imposed externally, or does it come from within the individual?
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What is the relationship between motivation and productivity? Is there a discernable difference between negative and positive motivation? (i.e. running for your life - immediate threat, or pursuing something positive w/o danger) Keep in mind: answers don't come without questions
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Replying to @cosimia_
> difference between negative and positive motivation? Have thought lots about this. Seems there is, both inherently to any feedback system and specifics to human psychology implementation. It's adaptive for fear to overpower desire: those who don't flee don't survive.
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This makes sense when dealing with real acute danger, but for some time now* humans have been living in tense states of chronic fear. Due to the power differential
between fear & desire, this makes desire-based motivation hard to tap
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean
this is bang on. people on the whole seem to be a great deal more anxious then they should be given the circumstances. makes me wonder - what is it that we are fearful of? what are we missing? is this the human disease or is the structure of our society off the mark?
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Structure of society.
@DavidDeutschOxf outlines this brilliantly in some of the last chapters of his book The Beginning of Infinity. Human prehistory is a story of increasingly powerful creativity being used to maintain totally static societies.https://amzn.to/2BUGmPC2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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this book has been linked and suggested to me so many times why havent i bought it already
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Malcolm 🌎cean Retweeted emily_
> why havent i bought it alreadyhttps://twitter.com/cosimia_/status/1100879398494920704 …
Malcolm 🌎cean added,
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:O dont expose me like this
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