Status:: #🟥 Tags:: #🎓 Links:: [[My Lectures]] Course:: [[Self-Regulation MOC]] ___ ## Summary ## Notes # 6 Types Of Motivation ## Instincts Instincts are innate, inborn, behavioral responses that are fixed and happen every time. Geese do this when they bring egg shaped things into the next, even if it's not an egg. While humans have reflexes as well, we rely more on cultural evolution that doesn't rely on instincts. ## Hierarchy Of Needs And Motives There are primary drives like thirst, hunger, safety, and shelter, and secondary drives like security, love, and creativity. My challenge is to create two memorable experiences with friends every single week. ### How This Relates To My Goal For Self Regulation This is included in the love/belonging level of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. Unfortunately, you can't have your cake and eat it to. By targeting this as my goal I'm inhibiting some other goals. One of those is supercharging my business. For the last 3 years I have been creating consistently on YouTube, my podcast, and my newsletter. Trying to make my friendships better will cost me time and energy I could be working on accelerating this aspect of my life. However, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. I still have a year and a half of college and am in no rush to make my business into a full time income in the next few months. So I would rather focus my energy and time on friendships instead. Another goal I might be inhibiting is my resistance training. Resistance training takes a lot of time. Right now I'm working out four times a week for about an hour and ten minutes each time. Hanging out more with friends might make it more difficult to do this. ## Visceral Drives The three visceral drives are thirst, hunger, and distress. ### Thirst We tend to drink more the more salt we intake. This is why so many bars and restaurants give away salty food for free. It makes us crave drinks. ### Hunger We have psychological preferences for food. The food we ate as a kid or our mother ate while we were in the womb, has a drastic effect on the food preferences we have. There are even cases of one trial learning where having one bad experience with food can cause us to not want to have it again. The size of our plate and volume of our food can effect our food choices. Smaller plates and higher volume food generally make us eat less calories.