What Drives You?
Understanding Our Motivations

© 2004 Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D., CBC

Do you really understand what motivates you? Everyone knows how important it is to “know yourself,” yet few people do. Really understanding your motivations is a life-long challenge. Part of the problem lies in the fact that motivations are subconscious, so deeply embedded that we don’t get a good look at them. They are experienced as instinctive.

Are there basic drives that are common to all human beings? Which ones are driving us in our daily lives? How are they influencing the choices you make?

The Balancing Act

There are drives that are innate and universal, found in some physical form in the brains of all human beings. The drives are independent even though they are highly interactive with each other.

Understanding how each of these drives shows up in your life can help you understand how and why you make the choices you make. Working with your coach can help you understand yourself better. You may be relying too much on your drive to acquire, or placing too much emphasis in the drive to bond, while neglecting your drive to learn. Often the drive to defend can overwhelm other important drives that must be satisfied in order to have a well-balanced successful life.

This is a synopsis of a 1,000-word article that includes the following concepts:

What motivates us?
How motivations and drives are subconscious
Freud, Maslow, McClelland and Spranger’s theories
A new theory of four basic drives
How they show up in modern living
The dark side of each drive
The balancing act
Working with your coach

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