Our Brain’s Motivational Challenge – High Quality Motivation!

What is the ideal nature of Motivation?  Not simply high or low, but what are it’s characteristics?  What is High Quality Motivation? Is it fleeting or enduring? Is it impassioned, or stern and self disciplined?  Is it aligned with your true long term values, or driven by the needs of the moment?  Is it diversified with many motive forces, or uni-dimensional?  Is it highly conscious, or subconscious? Is it intrinsic or extrinsic?  Is it fueled with purely positive emotion or does it work better overall with some fear of failure, or perhaps some desire to win, dominate, or hate something you feel is wrong?  Motivationally Intelligent motivation is well suited to the situation – well suited to what it takes to do what is in your insightful and potentially benevolent best interest.  Motivational Intelligence is the ability – on the fly – to optimize and maintain your motivations for all the things you do,  to fulfill the many roles we want to fill, to motivate ourselves realistically, so we do not live a life of frustration, dissappointment and guilt.  Our often autopiloted minds are doing a lot!!!!  We do not act until we are sufficiently motivated – motivated enough to break the action-threshold.  Producing the right motivation, in as enjoyable a form as possible, is our challenge minute by minute,  and throughout our lives. Are you good at this?  Are you as good as you’d like to be? It is highly learnable!