Motivation And Personality - Know Your Type

Motivation is what makes leaders of ordinary men and personality plays a vital role. There are two types of personalities that affect motivation:

1. The type of person you are: Whether you have a overall strong personality or weak personality


2. Our image perceived by another person: This deals with the mental aptitude and even the physical attributes.

If we look around us we will find many people who show a lack of motivation in life due to their subdued personality. The most affected are the people who feel that they have a personality that makes them feel like a social outcast or inferior in any way.

Some of the examples are that of obese people, people with low IQ, people suffering from depression and then there are people who can easily succumb to defeat in a situation, test, interview, examination and turned to committing suicide. These are actually the weaker aspects of personality. This is where motivation is required.

Motivation can be derived from external sources like:

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   News: Tom Whittaker used prosthetic legs to climb Mt. Everest. This incident provides motivation to a lot of people. Most people would think, if he can do it then why can’t I? Of course, how much motivation you can derive from this event and whether it can bring a positive change or not will depend on your strong will. Positive motivation can help you to fight and win against some of the toughest enemies including physical problems like disability & blindness.


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   Stories: We all grow up hearing stories. Some stories remain within us and we are able to relate to them whenever faced with a situation that demands the best or the worst from us. It is more of a psychological phenomenon. Stories about sacrifice, generosity, conquests, love, and death can bring tears to the eyes but also stir the soul and can become a source of motivation. This motivation will also help in carve a stronger personality.

Motivation can be derived from internal sources like an event. In one lifetime, a person can go through a multitude of events, which denotes the highs and lows in his or her life. How you take each situation and what you learn from it will determine whether you will be able to motivate yourself or not. There are two basic personality types. These are the people who have motivation yet the results are different:

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  Ambitious: These people have fire in their belly. They work relentlessly towards a single goal. Failure doesn’t slow them down and at the same time they gain motivation from their failures and this motivation lays the cornerstone of their dreams and a future.


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  Casual: For them the moment is important but one low can bring them down. They have been through failures, but not learned from them. They have the power within them to motivate themselves and reach a high in life but often falter on the way due to the “who cares” attitude.

Its important to find what motivates you and use this as leverage towards success.