Well in class we talked about love and fear, but one thing I do not think we went into too much depth about was how they are motivatotors. We got a great explanation from a studnet that fear and love branched off into all other emotions. Like fear branches into Psycopathy, Antipathy, and Apathy. Love branches off into Empathy, Sympathy, and Theopathy. But we never really talked about how both love and fear are both the strongest motivators of all.
Fear as a motivation is maybe the strongest motivator and one may argue that fear is the only motivator. That fear combines all other motivators into one. But in my opinion love and fear are two different motivators. Fear moves some people to do extraordinary things, things people could not or would not normally do. For example fear of failing a class leads you to stay up, study, do homework and so on. Fear of a dog makes you run faster than you normally can. But why? To tell the truth I have no idea why. No one can be positive why. Why do we no why can we do things like keep our selvs awake or run that little bit faster to get away. Some maybe able to answer this question with religon or science but where di we know what is right.
Love maybe a motivation all alone. When you love someone you are motivated to impress that person, to make that person love you back, make youself better for your significant other is this not motivation? Motivation by way of love maybe the strongest. Although I do not believe that I have ever truely loved someone, love is a strong word. In my opinion I am not old enough to love. I do not think anyone my age is old enough for love although some may think they have loved what do they define love as? To talk about Romeo and Juliet who were around 13 or 14 were they old enough to love? I guess love is based on opinion but one thing people cannot argue that it is a motivator. What is your opinion? What is love? What about fear? What is the best motivator?
I think that love is not a motivator.I feel that fear motivates and love does not. You said that love motivates people to try harder for what or who they love, but i think that fear motivates people to try harder, because they fear losing, or being rejected by the person they love.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your blog Wadih. I believe that fear and love both motivate a person to try harder in life. However I do believe that fear is the most powerful motivator because the hardest thing to do is face your fears. To over come a fear takes great strength and courage.
ReplyDeleteInteresting question you have posted, Wadih. Love and fear are both extremely powerful motivators, I believe. I do not think that they are one and the same. Fear motivates us to do things that we might not wish to do, while love motivates us by making us glad to do the things that are required of us. Love is obviously more ideal that fear, but both are powerful motivators: the "carrot" and the "stick."
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