Just Like Me asks you to imagine yourself in the other person’s shoes and come to understand that they wish to be happy and loved, just like you.
The second exercise in empathy, Loving Kindness, requires you to meditate and have positive wishes for the other person. Wishing the best for somebody else will enhance your capacity for empathy and improve your relationship with them.
What Motivates Us
The dictionary defines motivation as a stimulus, or influence, incentive, inspiration, inducement, incitement, spur, or reason. In the context of the workplace it can be viewed as “Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job, role or subject, or to make an effort to attain a goal. Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors such as the (1) intensity of desire or need, (2) incentive or reward value of the goal, and (3) expectations of the individual and of his or her peers.”
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What dominates any conflict in a relationship, the so-called Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:
contempt
criticism
defensiveness
stonewalling
By 2050 risk of flooding doubles. We should move fast. We are running out of time. This is truly our last chance.
We can avoid the worst effects of climate change and the odds are particularly favorable for small island states such as Cyprus and Tuvalu.