What You Need To Know
About Motivation
By
Richard
Romando
Be
it a playground or a company, the formula for success is the same
everywhere: motivation. Motivation inspires the amount of effort one
puts in his work.
It is said that hard work breeds
confidence and confidence breeds success, but in all three stages
motivation is the driving force.
An
important motivator for a person in any profession is interest and the
desire to learn. One gets success when interest and the desire to learn
are linked together.
Psychologists call motivation as a very positive emotion. The famous
writer Daniel Goleman, in his book 'Emotional Intelligence', has
mentioned the chemical secretions in the brain leading to the positive
elevated feelings which help an individual to follow his goals.
Maslow, the great psychoanalyst, has unfolded many secrets of the
thought process of motivation.
His theory says that to achieve the perfect mature state of motivation
one has to pass through two important stages: self-actualization and
self-transcendence.
In
the initial state of self-actualization one achieves the sense of
self-fulfillment and realizes his potential. In the second state of
self-transcendence one succeeds in going beyond his individual ego and
thereby achieves a permanently motivated state of mind.
The 'Challenge' factor also plays a vital role in arousing the feelings
of motivation in most people.
Many people get motivated by the thought of doing something which they
think they can't do.
Plunging into the unknown is a purely human tendency, and human history
witnesses that the most successful people achieved their desired
objectives by taking risks and relying completely on their natural sense
of strong motivation.
Therefore, it has been universally recognized that the sense of
motivation is most important in getting success.