This is a YouTube video titled "The power of motivation" containing a monologue or talk recorded on September 2, 2023, discussing the nature of motivation, personal goals, and self-perception. The speaker explores how motivation can be driven by both moving away from pain and towards pleasure, and emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in language and mindset. There is no indication of multiple speakers or involvement of Beverley Simpson.
What motivates you? Typically, when people talk about motivation, you're either running away from something, so you're afraid to go back to something, or trying to escape something else right away from pain or towards pleasure. So what is the goal? What is driving the outcome? What am I motivated by? What do I want to achieve? And so for me, I realized that it's a combination of both things, depending on what it is, like what I'm working towards, right? In different areas of my life, the things that motivate me will be different. And so there's different arenas, right, that we all operate in. And so being able to get clarity on that and then what drives, drives your progress or regression from that? What stories do you tell yourself about yourself? What labels do you walk around saying, I am this type of person, or I'm not this type of person, or I can do this, but I can't do that, and just really paying attention to my own language. I think that that's important because you don't really pay attention to the shoulds, shouldn'ts, cans.
