Comments on: Positive Motivation Versus Negative Motivation

By: Ways to get and keep yourself motivated «

Ways to get and keep yourself motivated « — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:37:03 +0000

[...] Whenever you lock in your motivation, do your best to keep it on the positive side, which is rooted in service. As opposed to the negative motivation, which is basically rooted in fear. Negative motivation works just the same, only it lasts significantly less than positive motivation. [...]

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33 Ways To Get And Keep Yourself Motivated — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:08:23 +0000

[...] Whenever you lock in your motivation, do your best to keep it on the positive side, which is rooted in service. As opposed to the negative motivation, which is basically rooted in fear. Negative motivation works just the the same, only it lasts significantly less than positive motivation. [...]

By: dragos

dragos — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:32:43 +0000

As per previous comment, I do value more one’s personal contribution, the kind that comes from direct experience, but I don’t discard upfront any scientific approach. What I do here is sharing my life experience. That’s all.

By: dragos

dragos — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:31:09 +0000

With all due respect for being one of my readers and for leaving a comment, but I have no idea whatsoever about you’re talking about. Never read that books / articles you quoted here. As I already wrote (many times) this blog is about my own personal path and it’s based on my direct life experience. Ideas don’t come out of thin air, I agree, in my case they come from a long and continuous “trial and error” approach towards my life.

As for the reliability of my ideas, I usually go for direct experience. Science and experiment surely plays an important role in our lives, but so are intuition and what you call “hunches”. I do appreciate the work other have been put in their research, but as I said, this is my own personal view on that topic, which you may or may not like.

By: dragos

dragos — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:27:12 +0000

Yes, there is certainly a link between your consciousness level and the dominant motivation for your actions, and I can relate to what you’re saying. A sharing attitude will most likely be fueled and fuel positive motivation, while a closed, fearful attitude – common in lower levels of consciousness – will trigger negative motivations.

Thanks for the RT’s, much appreciated

By: Positive Motivation Versus Negative Motivation « urban horror

Positive Motivation Versus Negative Motivation « urban horror — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:14:12 +0000

[...] Fear means you’re acting on the pressure of losing something, This is what fear is: the menace of losing something: your current context, your money, your life. Fear was for a long time a fantastic survival mechanism, and for that it was a good asset on our old life kit. It was fear which made the weaker one to run or to hide when a real threat was around. And fear made the weaker survive click for more [...]

By: BradMorris

BradMorris — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:35:56 +0000

First off, AWESOME comment, Gabi. It’s amazing how many people are so involved in the field who’ve never approached a core theory, text book or academic research.

Second, thanks for the original post itself. This is the kind of thought provoking material that challenges you to think I love it.

By: Gabi

Gabi — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:45:29 +0000

Dear Sir,

I believe it would be fair, to say at least, to quote the sources of your ideas about “positive and negative motivation”. For example, it makes me easily think of Tory Higgins’s work on promotion vs. prevention regulatory approach to motivation*.

Your audience may not be academic, but these ideas do not come out of thin air. On the contrary, they are often based on thorough research, on hours spent designing experimental studies, writing these results up and on months and years spent publishing them in peer-reviewed academic journals. This is what makes some of the arguments you are using here reliable, not just hunches and common sense that all of us may have. It is important that even a non-academic public acknowledges the research involved in these self-help ideas.

Kind regards,
Gabriela

* Higgins, E. T. (1998). Promotion and prevention: Regulatory focus as a motivational principle. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 30, pp. 1-41, Academic Press.

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Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:10:54 +0000

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By: Celes | CelestineChua.com

Celes | CelestineChua.com — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:20:04 +0000

Hey Dragos! Excellent post! I was reading the comments about how fear is usually a more powerful motivator than love. I see this to be more dependent on the consciousness level of the individual (I wrote about the different levels of consciousness in this post – http://celestinechua.com/blog/2009/02/map-of-consciousness/). Individuals who are closer to the fear-based, lower levels of consciousness will find themselves more responsive to fear stimuli, compared to those dominantly operating in higher, love levels. Our world is currently at a stage where majority are still in fear-based levels (pride, guilt, shame, fear, etc), which explains why we see more people reacting to fear. A good part of the mass media uses fear-based stimuli too – advertising, news, and so on.

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