Re: Ah, but if it's at core about pleasing parents...

Posted by RoTtEn ApPlE on May 30, 2001 at 10:20:15:

In Reply to: Re: Ah, but if it's at core about pleasing parents... posted by Riv on May 30, 2001 at 08:36:48:

> > ... they are more likely a 3 disguised as a 5. (Not an uncommon phenomenon.)

> I see what you are saying but disagree. The 3 would fake the deep thinking and be conscious of making a good impression. The gist of their conversation would revolve around what people are thinking about them rather than being lost in thought and talking about obscure and intuitive topics. Rather than pleasing parents as a core motivation, it is a sub route from the major road of being influenced by parents into the values of the style of thought and learning.

>>>Apparently you don't. Motivation doesn't have to be (and generally isn't) CONSCIOUS, my good man. VALUES may be TAUGHT... personality is not. (Though granted conditioning can play a part). Hell, for a three, it can even be displaced to pleasing the internalized parent... and YOU, the outsider, might never see it.

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• Conscious motivation Riv 11:34:48 05/30/01 (5)
  • Re: Conscious motivation RoTtEn ApPlE 13:22:21 05/30/01 (4)
    • Re: Conscious motivation Riv 15:11:19 05/30/01 (3)
      • Re: Conscious motivation RoTtEn ApPlE 16:43:56 05/30/01 (2)
        • Maybe a LITTLE spacey. Riv 17:50:18 05/30/01 (1)
          • How quickly this deteriorates.... RoTtEn ApPlE 19:02:00 05/30/01 (0)

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