Book contents
- Motivating Self and Others
- Motivating Self and Others
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Motivation and Optimal Functioning
- Chapter 2 Self-Direction
- Chapter 3 Core Personal Goals
- Chapter 4 Motivational Systems Theory
- Chapter 5 Thriving with Social Purpose
- Chapter 6 Evolutionary Origins of Social Purpose
- Chapter 7 Life Meaning
- Chapter 8 Guiding Principles for Motivating Self and Others
- Chapter 9 Your Toolbox for Motivating Self and Others
- References
- Index
Chapter 2 - Self-Direction
How Nature Has Equipped You to Survive, with Well-Being
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2020
- Motivating Self and Others
- Motivating Self and Others
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Motivation and Optimal Functioning
- Chapter 2 Self-Direction
- Chapter 3 Core Personal Goals
- Chapter 4 Motivational Systems Theory
- Chapter 5 Thriving with Social Purpose
- Chapter 6 Evolutionary Origins of Social Purpose
- Chapter 7 Life Meaning
- Chapter 8 Guiding Principles for Motivating Self and Others
- Chapter 9 Your Toolbox for Motivating Self and Others
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter tells the fascinating story of how human motivational processes evolved from the humblest of creatures, starting with “primordial” goals and precursors of basic emotions. In addition to explaining how our capabilities for self-direction and self-regulation evolved, this chapter provides a way of understanding the complexly organized motivational systems we see in humans in a way that transcends specific motivation theories. It is thus a chapter about the fundamental properties of human nature as they relate to motivation and optimal functioning rather than a chapter about a particular theoretical approach to human motivation. That is an essential framing, as one of the basic premises of this book is that efforts to motivate self and others can best succeed if they are consistent with basic human nature.
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- Motivating Self and OthersThriving with Social Purpose, Life Meaning, and the Pursuit of Core Personal Goals, pp. 20 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020