2012-12-02, 03:18 AM
Motivation is the thing that K-12 teachers tell their students they don't have enough of so they don't give up on an education. Teachers often do this because it makes students easier to manage by preventing them from dealing with real personal issues early on in their childhood, therefore giving them a positive panacea coupled along with arbitrary "You're Special!" stickers, meanwhile at night they are with the union ensuring that there will be equal treatment and a safety net from being fired in case the next round of budget cuts come and the principal is looking for a couple of generic teachers to axe to just break even. Maybe if teachers themselves had someone taller and older smiling and giving them teddy bear stickers that said, "Cheer up you can do it! Just bear with it!" they too wouldn't need to rely on collective job action to leverage against the sordid risk of being job less. Motivation is also usually what pre-meds tell themselves repeatedly instead of admitting that they just fall short of the high academic standards of medical school:
e.g. "I know that I haven't done well, but it's because I wasn't all that motivated!! Things will get better next semester if I care about it more!!"
See: Organic Chemistry
Motivation is commonly used to refer to an ego gap. A gap that defines the space between a person's self-perceived current status and the status that they perceive they should be at or should attain:
e.g. "I may be working at McDonalds now! But I'm motivated to some day move up and work the big leagues at the front counter of Panera!"
See: Objective measurement of the ego gap can be charted by the name plate theory. The farther away your name is from your physical body, the more important you are. Name is on your chest, you are working minimum wage as a cashier or salesman. Name is on your desk, you are some low level management calling some shots. Name is on your door, you are likely middle class middle income middle management, good job! Name is on the building you work in, you're an exec or someone at the higher rung of the economy. Your name is on something overseas, you're likely overseas on the opposite hemisphere sipping martinis or what have you.
Motivation is rarely used to describe more realistic, albeit less respectable social endeavors:
e.g. "I am motivated to kill myself because all I see in my life is a series of dead end jobs that go nowhere despite how much I try to motivate myself." OR "I am motivated to drown as many kegs as possible and finish going through that entire folder of porn I downloaded last night."
Motivation is sometimes treated as a red flag during interviews:
e.g. "Motivated self-start individual who is interested in working generic mundane job with little to no relevant credentials. But please keep in mind I am a hard worker and I am motivated."
Tom couldn't figure out why he didn't get the job. He thought that he was unique in that he was the only person who thought he was a hard working and motivated individual despite the tough economy and bad times. Even though he didn't get the job, Tom did know one thing. He wasn't a liar to be a hire.
e.g. "I know that I haven't done well, but it's because I wasn't all that motivated!! Things will get better next semester if I care about it more!!"
See: Organic Chemistry
Motivation is commonly used to refer to an ego gap. A gap that defines the space between a person's self-perceived current status and the status that they perceive they should be at or should attain:
e.g. "I may be working at McDonalds now! But I'm motivated to some day move up and work the big leagues at the front counter of Panera!"
See: Objective measurement of the ego gap can be charted by the name plate theory. The farther away your name is from your physical body, the more important you are. Name is on your chest, you are working minimum wage as a cashier or salesman. Name is on your desk, you are some low level management calling some shots. Name is on your door, you are likely middle class middle income middle management, good job! Name is on the building you work in, you're an exec or someone at the higher rung of the economy. Your name is on something overseas, you're likely overseas on the opposite hemisphere sipping martinis or what have you.
Motivation is rarely used to describe more realistic, albeit less respectable social endeavors:
e.g. "I am motivated to kill myself because all I see in my life is a series of dead end jobs that go nowhere despite how much I try to motivate myself." OR "I am motivated to drown as many kegs as possible and finish going through that entire folder of porn I downloaded last night."
Motivation is sometimes treated as a red flag during interviews:
e.g. "Motivated self-start individual who is interested in working generic mundane job with little to no relevant credentials. But please keep in mind I am a hard worker and I am motivated."
Tom couldn't figure out why he didn't get the job. He thought that he was unique in that he was the only person who thought he was a hard working and motivated individual despite the tough economy and bad times. Even though he didn't get the job, Tom did know one thing. He wasn't a liar to be a hire.