Comments on: Love-Based Motivation vs. Fear-Based Motivation: The Carrot and the Stick http://connection-revolution.com/love-based-motivation-vs-fear-based-motivation-the-carrot-and-the-stick/ connect with spirit. connect with others. connect with yourself. change the world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:51:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pace http://connection-revolution.com/love-based-motivation-vs-fear-based-motivation-the-carrot-and-the-stick/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Pace Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:56:36 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=430#comment-194 @Nathan: YES! YES YES YES! I didn't mean to advocate choosing avoidance. I meant to advocate choosing to do something else instead, something that you want to do more than that goal or that journey. I've rewritten the second half of the post to reflect your suggestion. Let me know what you think. And thanks!! @Nathan: YES! YES YES YES! I didn’t mean to advocate choosing avoidance. I meant to advocate choosing to do something else instead, something that you want to do more than that goal or that journey. I’ve rewritten the second half of the post to reflect your suggestion. Let me know what you think. And thanks!!

]]> By: Nathan Winant http://connection-revolution.com/love-based-motivation-vs-fear-based-motivation-the-carrot-and-the-stick/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Nathan Winant Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:57:03 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=430#comment-189 This is cool, but I have one critique: I don't understand how wholeheartedly avoiding things that you think are unpleasant is really different from living in fear. It strikes me that the winning approach here would be to identify the things that you think are unpleasant and then figure out how to overcome them. Alternately, figure out a goal that is desirable in its own right that takes you away from those unpleasant things, and work towards that. That might seem like a minor difference, but I think it's actually pretty important. Defining your life by avoidance seems like it would be pretty unsatisfying, and possibly stressful. This is cool, but I have one critique: I don’t understand how wholeheartedly avoiding things that you think are unpleasant is really different from living in fear. It strikes me that the winning approach here would be to identify the things that you think are unpleasant and then figure out how to overcome them. Alternately, figure out a goal that is desirable in its own right that takes you away from those unpleasant things, and work towards that.

That might seem like a minor difference, but I think it’s actually pretty important. Defining your life by avoidance seems like it would be pretty unsatisfying, and possibly stressful.

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