Actions for Motivating self and others : thriving with social purpose, life meaning, and the pursuit of core personal goals

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Motivating self and others : thriving with social purpose, life meaning, and the pursuit of core personal goals / Martin E. Ford, George Mason University, Peyton R. Smith

Author
Ford, Martin E.
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 522 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Additional Creators
Smith, Peyton R.
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Summary
This book describes the essential nature of human motivation by integrating the best ideas and evidence from motivational and evolutionary science. In doing so, the authors explain how the cultivation of goal-life alignment and 'thriving with social purpose' motivational patterns can inspire optimal functioning and enhance life meaning. Readers are provided with a comprehensive framework for guiding research and intervention efforts along with motivational principles designed to summarize the major themes in effective efforts to motivate yourself and those you wish to help or encourage. Special emphasis is placed on the importance of life meaning in empowering our motivational systems and protecting us from downward spirals of disappointment and suffering. Compelling evidence is provided to support the view that social purpose is as fundamental as self-interest in human motivational systems. The authors also focus on the catalytic role of social purpose in enabling humans to soar above all other species.
Subject(s)
ISBN
9781108869164 (ebook)
9781108491655 (hardback)
9781108798785 (paperback)
Note
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).
View MARC record | catkey: 34827037