One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
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Motivations are too tangled and complex.
Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'
I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.