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                                  %KINDS MOTIVATION 950507

     There   are  many kinds of motivations which motivate
and guide human behavior:

     1.  CURIOSITY  about  places,  people, relationships,
experiences, ideas, etc.

     2.  PREOCCUPATION   with  achievement,    attainment,
completion,   and  consummation of some cognitive goal  or
plan.

     3.  WORKING-OUT of some emotional drive.

     4.  Expression of basic human instincts.

     5.  Drive to re-experience some previous experience.

     6.  An exclusive fixation/preoccupation/addiction.

     7.  Fear, apprehension, paranoia, anxiety, etc.

     To  deal  wisely  with each kind  of  motivation  may
require  a recognition of which kind of motivation one  is
dealing with.   The effective way to deal with one kind of
motivation may be tragically misguided in seeking to  deal
with another kind of motivation.

     Some  kinds of motivation are prone to be  tragically
disintegrative   in  most situations---and may  be   prone
to  elicit   responses  which  are  tragically   misguided
and disintegrative.

     If we are unfamiliar with,  do not recognize,  and do
not know how to respond creatively to disintegrative kinds
of   motivations---we  are  prone  to  react  to  them  in
disintegrative  ways.    If we do not openly and  honestly
name,     describe  and talk about  our   motivations---we
are unlikely to be able to deal creatively with them.

     There  are  many  particular examples  of  the  above
descriptions.    We will do well and be well when we  have
given  those  particular  examples careful  attention  and
clearly articulated our experiences related to them.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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