When lacking motivation I find it always helpful to,evaluate your behavior. I can say deffinitevely that our thinking determines our actions. Why we eat, sleep, talk, brush our teeth it is all determined by conscious, unconscious, thoughts or feelings that we get in our brains driving our behavior. And Although we are the ones thinking, the problem comes when it is flawed. Flawed, meaning, prejudiced, quick to assume, forgetftul, fallacious,etc.All together wrong(see the foundation for critical thinking) In light of a lack of motivation determined by this flawed thinking in the driver seat, It would lead one to assume that you must, NOT NECESSARILY CHANGE IT, but examine and criticize it. Think,of why you feel or,think a certain way. You can only know anything in relation to,something else. Trace it, evaluate the root cause, change it and repeat. For example, I often feel a lack of motivation as well. And so what I will ask myself is why? Why do I come home and lay on the couch, why do, I waste so much priceless time? And I begin to examine my patterns of behavior.,such that my brain assumes something is right because it is a habit, I will ask series of questions to understand my behavior fully without fail. What about laziness is wrong? What about productiveness,is,good? Where does laziness,come,from? How,does experience play into my conclusions, more importantly is this decision making flawed?
At 3:50 when you were explaining the definition of optimum arousal, you labeled it as drive reduction theory. In the end this was a great video :) It REALLY HELPED ME STUDY
This video just made me realise why my academic performance dropped in my final year of university. Paradoxically, this knowledge is both devastating and relieving.
From a social psychologist who studies motivation: drive-reduction and Maslow's hierarchy are particularly antiquated theories. I cannot say that I know of anyone in my field who admits to letting these theories strongly inform upon their work. One theory of motivation that does have incredibly far-reaching influence is Self-Determination Theory. If you want to gain a true understanding of motivation, take a look at SDT.
To Crash Course, Although very right in explaining the different theories and to acknowledge the fact that they all are 'theories', when describing that 'sex' isn't a psychological need would be incorrect (in my opinion). Although one doesn't die as such without sex, our race would definitely die without it (excluding IVF etc). Surely their would be some psychological programming deep within our design to continue on our race? Open for debate???
@Clinton, I went back in the video and confirmed that he said sex was "not a need" and didn't specify what kind. If we're generous, we can assume he meant it wasn't an individual's physiological need. You're right of course that without it, many bad things happen, including but not limited to the extinction of the species and an awful lot of people sporting a very bad case of blue balls.
Hank can you and your team start making Crash Course:Physics if you have time and resources,it would be very useful and pragmatical,especially for me and all guys that are in puberty right now?
Funny you should mention that: why do you need Wifi? To connect to your online community. The need for wifi is part of your need to belong. Also of being entertained/stimulated.
Don't mind me, just here trying to make sense of this stuff to pass a test haha! Thanks for helping. I have a 90% in the class so far. I watch these over and over. Super helpful!
I wish you guys could tackle more of the recent psych work in motivation...I think this episode stops around 1970 in research developments. There's been a lot of work in motivation & goal research from the 1980's onward, and it is a huge area of research today. But I know you only have so much time to cover this topic, so it was a good primer.
he is really fun and he makes psychology fun I do appreciate it. My psychology instructor keeps referring us to these videos in her slides Big Thumbs up
it's funny how one brother ends up with a comments section full of jokes and people actually commenting on the video subject and the other gets an endless parade of rants and flame wars about which country, race or religion is more subhuman than the other
+Esta Fortaleza True. I love CC World History, it got me through all of AP World, but the comments there are just so toxic. People suck; that's the lesson for today.
It would have been kind of funny if Freud slowly appeared and disappeared from the edge of the video player when Hank said that one of the main motivators is sex.
I was a practicing anorexic for 32 years. During that time I hardly ever thought about food and learned how to ignore whatever hunger I had. I also hated most forms of social interaction. For the past 4 years, I've managed to maintain a healthy weight. I eat around twice a day, instead of twice a week. However, I still hate most forms of social interaction, so hunger and social avoidance aren't necessarily related... although it probably does mean that I have more problems than I thought... ;)
I hate being human, more or less the videos have tough me so much but every passing second watching it just reminds me of how utterly wonderful and complex our failures as a collective can be. Love the series though and I would love to see more.
while revising for my next class was totaly caught up in the flawless explanation of this man. i really do like his explanation it unexpatedly makes it easier to undesstand
There was a study on motivation that deprived ppts off food for 24hr and then showing them food on a screen while the experimenter recorded how bright the ppts viewed the food against a controlled group that was not deprived- despite the ethical issues of harming participants and the participants not fully aware of how it feels to go without food the study showed the deprivation caused a brighter, more idealistic view of the food images. It’s interesting that their motivation on food changed their perception of food.
Can you talk about why Asexuals don't feel or act on most sexual hormones? My parents and friends think it is just a phase, or do to me being an introvert. I want to help them understand that it isn't that.
You should send this question to sexplanations, they deal more with that kind of thing on that channel than this one. (its a good question though!! :D)
+moardub In the middle of his final night, hallucinating through hunger, lack of water and 3C temperatures, he had a vision of a small boy. "I see myself in this out-of-body experience playing with him with a handless right arm. I see myself scoop him up and there's this look in his eyes, 'Daddy, can we play now?' That look tells me this is my son, this is in the future, I'm gonna have this experience some day. Now it's like, I am going to get through this night." Here ya go. www.theguardian.com/film/2010/dec/15/story-danny-boyles-127-hours
At first, I watch the video for my management class, but I find the video describe very detail about motivation. I watched twice to catch up the points. I think the hunger is the most important motivation in our lives. When we are hungry and we know that we don't have lunch until finish our jobs, then people would work very fast.
TO get motivated for doing any thing, we need a very strong reason. That's basically driving reduction like we study hard because we think to be successful in future(such a lie). best example:- I am writing a comment on a motivational video because I was said to, to get full marks in an assignment, that is my motivation.
I have no motivation to do anything until I am forced too. Clean my house, shower, leave my house. And I avoid doing all of those things if I can. Why do I not have motivation to better myself?
actually I do have chronic bipolar depression. i dont do things last minute. u just dont want to do them. I have no motivation to get out of bed. I cannot clean my house unless someone else is there.
Shantelle Benfica I got to a point where I stayed at home all day doing nothing and got so sick of it that THAT gave me the motivation to finally go out and do something. I can say I’m way happier now that I feel productive
These videos are just packed with knowledge!!! You're such an awesome guy bro! I wish they would make schience, psychology and biology this interesting in school
huh,Maslow's Hierarchy pyramid was mentioned in The Fault in Our Stars and I actually remembered the levels before Hank explained it. There's hope for me yet x)
Brilliant channel. I haven't seen a better one yet. The mini lecture reminds me of what Schopenhauer wrote about boredom, a big theme in his philosophy.
i like how that guy had the motivation to cut his arm off to survive and be free but i barely had the motivation to get off the couch and make mac n cheese
From the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, i think my lack of motivation may be caused by my reduced meals over the past year +. I shall test this theory and see where i am at in 30 days of 3 full meals a day. Thank you.
hi i really really love what you guys do in crash course and love the way you teach things ... i find this the only way that i can learn new things without falling asleep so thanks a lot.
