This is part of What Interest Me This Week.

I've been trying to build a map of core-motivations, in the sense of what drives people to do what they do. I doubt I'm even half complete but here are the few that I can name:

• Fear
• Envy
• Pleasure
• Guilt (me)

Being fear-driven is very common. Rules are obeyed out of fear for punishment, that's easy to grok.

Being envy-driven is the worst of all drives in my mind. This what Rene Girard has been warning us about.

Pleasure-drve is comfort seeking. I label it hedonism. It tends be to be socially approved when you are responding to your inner drive.

The problem with all the modes above except pleasure is authenticity. In that if something is done out of fear, it's a performance lack of genuity. But should that be a big deal? If so, on what level and how much? I doubtful that all good successes are driven by the authentic motivations.

Being guilt-driven is a subset of fear-driven. In that you fear the sense of guilt so much you rather give in to whatever is requested of you. A stereotypical Catholic upbringing may look like this.

I want to pay special attention on the attributes here and examine of there exist any opportunity to play to strength.