Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow them.
In your quest to become as happy and fulfilled in your life as you choose to be, you can be
motivated by two types of need. The more common form of motivation is called imperfection or
deficiency motivation, while the healthier variety is labelled growth motivation.
If you place a rock under a microscope and observe it carefully, you will note that it never changes.
But, if you put a piece of coral under that same microscope, you'll detect that it is growing and
changing. Conclusion: The coral is alive, the rock is dead. The only evidence of life is growth! This
is also true in the psychological world, if you are growing, you are alive. If you are not growing,
then you might as well as dead.
You can be motivated out of a desire to grow rather than out of a desire to grow rather than a
need to repair your deficiencies. If you recognize that you can always grow, improve, become
greater, that is enough. When you decide to be immobilized or to experience hurtful emotions,
you've made a non-growth decision. Growth motivation means using your life energy for greater
happiness, rather than having to improve your self because you have sinned or because you are
in some way incomplete. A corollary of choosing growth as motivation is personal mastery in
every present moment of your life. Mastery means you are the decider of your fate.
Questions
1. What are the two types of motivation in a man's life?
2. What is the difference between a rock and a coral? What does it prove?
3. What is true in the psychological world?
4. Why should one opt for Growth Motivation rather than Non- Growth decision?
5. What influence does your desire to grow put on you?
6. When do you come to know that you have made a non- Growth decisions?
7. What do you mean by 'growth motivation'?
8. What does 'mastery'
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