Showing posts with label Emotion as Motivation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emotion as Motivation. Show all posts
Emotive, Emotion and Feelings
To write is to persuade. To persuade is to make a connection and if you want to motivate then that connection will have to be an emotional connection. If the goal of your persuasion is to keep the reader turning pages, the path is the same.
Sympathy
Emotion Encyclopedia for Writers
Emotion Encyclopedia for Writers
EMOTIVE: SYMPATHY
DESCRIPTION
Sympathy (from the Greek words syn "together" and pathos "feeling" which means "fellow-feeling") is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another human being.
This emphatic-type concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint, from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need. Empathy and sympathy are often used interchangeably, but are two distinct emotions with several important differences.
EMOTIVE: SYMPATHY
TYPE: COMPLEX
DEFINITION: 'sym·pa·thy || 'sɪmpəθɪaffinity, understanding; compassion, pity, concern, commiseration, empathy; approval
DESCRIPTION
This emphatic-type concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint, from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need. Empathy and sympathy are often used interchangeably, but are two distinct emotions with several important differences.
Emotional Motivator
Maslow wasn't Correct
What is an Emotional Motivator ? What good is it?
Symbolism is a effective method of demonstrating emotional turmoil by implying rather than describing |
There are several studies which have suggested over the century that emotions, and not logic drive our actions. Those who develop and utilized Marketing and Sales techniques accepted this as far back as -- well let's just say that Aristotle talks at length about it in his book Rhetoric (both 1 & 2).
Maslow created a rational, brilliantly thought out hierarchy of needs...
Thoughts on Bullshit
Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!
(It is not only not right, it is not even wrong)
(It is not only not right, it is not even wrong)
Some big minds tell us that it is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. So this make Bullshit different than lying. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is responding to the truth, and for his side of it, he believes he understands what the truth is.
When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, he believes his statements to be false.
For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off:
Some thoughts on Political Details
Details, they say, are the dwellings of devils.
I'm always a little amazed at the "vital" particle -- and its slight stature compared to the body of work it brings to life. I have spent days in furious and obsessive search for that "detail" -- which once turned out to be a date:
It was 1987 when Eric discovered the nation was insane.
and once, a flowering herb:
Details. It is so little we need, but what we need is absolute.
I'm always a little amazed at the "vital" particle -- and its slight stature compared to the body of work it brings to life. I have spent days in furious and obsessive search for that "detail" -- which once turned out to be a date:
It was 1987 when Eric discovered the nation was insane.
and once, a flowering herb:
"Hemlock water dropwort" (Oenanthe crocata) the plant responsible for producing the sardonic grin. The candidate for the "sardonic herb," a neurotoxic plant used for the ritual killing of elderly people in pre-Roman Sardinia. When these people were unable to support themselves, the herb was given to them as an intoxicant and once in the grip of the poison, they were dropped from a high rock or beaten to death. It was also said to cause rictus laughter from the victim before death.
-- that was such a cool find though.
Details. It is so little we need, but what we need is absolute.
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