Scott Geller is Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and Director of the Center for Applied Behavior Systems in the Department of Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the World Academy of Productivity and Quality. He has written numerous articles and books, including When No One's Watching: Living and Leading Self-motivation. Scott will examine how we can become self-motivated in "The Psychology of Self-Motivation.
At first, Scott begin explaining how limits or boundaries are put toward us by our teachers, parents or tutors, because we need somebody to tell us how to be responsible, what is being responsible, and what is to do the right thing. And those who tell us then how to go beyond the limits and do what we want to do and for us, not for the rest of the people. So, how do we stay auto motivated, there is when the EMPOWERNESS shows up. You have to ask yourself three questions. First one: Can you do it? Albert Bandura call this auto efficiency; Do you think you can do it? Do you have the time, the knowledge and the training enough to do what do ask to do? Second one: is it going to work? Albert Bandura call it answer effectiveness. We have always called this training education, but why is training now? Because to be training it need to be do it and comment. And third question: is it worth it? If you ask yourself yes to all those question you feel qualified to do so. I recommend you to read “beyond liberty and dignity” from 1971, here shows that consequences motivate us, to continue doing something or to stop that activity, because this had shown you your skills and your weaknesses.
Scott Geller is Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and Director of the Center for Applied Behavior Systems in the Department of Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the World Academy of Productivity and Quality. He has written numerous articles and books, including When No One's Watching: Living and Leading Self-motivation. Scott will examine how we can become self-motivated in "The Psychology of Self-Motivation.
ReplyDeleteAt first, Scott begin explaining how limits or boundaries are put toward us by our teachers, parents or tutors, because we need somebody to tell us how to be responsible, what is being responsible, and what is to do the right thing. And those who tell us then how to go beyond the limits and do what we want to do and for us, not for the rest of the people. So, how do we stay auto motivated, there is when the EMPOWERNESS shows up. You have to ask yourself three questions. First one: Can you do it? Albert Bandura call this auto efficiency; Do you think you can do it? Do you have the time, the knowledge and the training enough to do what do ask to do? Second one: is it going to work? Albert Bandura call it answer effectiveness. We have always called this training education, but why is training now? Because to be training it need to be do it and comment. And third question: is it worth it? If you ask yourself yes to all those question you feel qualified to do so. I recommend you to read “beyond liberty and dignity” from 1971, here shows that consequences motivate us, to continue doing something or to stop that activity, because this had shown you your skills and your weaknesses.