Master Your Motivation, Susan Fowler
Master Your Motivation, Susan Fowler
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Master Your Motivation
Three Scientific Truths for Achieving Your Goals

Author: Susan Fowler

Narrator: Susan Fowler

Unabridged: 4 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 06/04/2019


Synopsis

If you want to accomplish what's important to you, discipline and willpower won't get you where you need to go. In this iconoclastic new book, Susan Fowler reveals compelling insights and actions to help you master and maintain your motivation.

Susan Fowler makes the bold claim that not all motivation is created equal. Too often, workplaces, schools, and home environments set us up for suboptimal motivation-undermining our independence, relationships, and competence. In order to achieve optimal motivation, Fowler asks us to consider three simple scientific truths to help us achieve our goals and flourish:
1. Autonomy: we all need to perceive we have control over what happens in our lives
2. Relatedness: we all need to care about others and feel cared about without ulterior motives
3. Competence: we all need to feel we can meet everyday challenges and learn and grow each day
It's time we awakened to this truth: People don't want to be bored or disengaged. People appreciate meaningful challenges. People want to contribute, feel fulfilled, and grow and learn every day. No matter what our situation-or age-our basic nature is the desire to thrive. People long to experience the competence that comes from growing and learning every day. And now, thanks to the most groundbreaking research in the history of motivation, we know how to promote thriving.

About Susan Fowler

Susan Fowler is one of the world's foremost experts on personal empowerment and has spoken on the subject in all fifty of the United States and more than twenty foreign countries. With Ken Blanchard and Laurence Hawkins she created -- and is the lead developer of -- Situational Self Leadership;®, which focuses on empowerment and taking the initiative when you're not in charge. She is an adjunct professor for the University of San Diego's masters of science in executive leadership program.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on July 08, 2019

Have you ever noticed how one day you are on cloud nine getting things done with adrenaline coursing through your veins and the next day just making coffee is a chore? Unfortunately, motivation is an inconsistent tool for most of us to consistently master and as leaders, we really aren’t that effect......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on September 21, 2020

I had to read Master Your Motivation for the intro class for my Writing & Rhetoric major. I definitely think it would be beneficial for someone looking for guidance on how to properly motivate themselves in school, work, or any sort of activity where they aren't feeling "optimal motivation," as Fo......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on June 03, 2019

During the first few chapters, I thought this book is nice, but it’s not really providing anything I haven’t heard already. However, about half-way through the book, I really started thinking about what Susan Fowler was saying and I had an Aha moment. Fowler shows how the Reinforcement Theory made f......more

Goodreads review by Marta on October 23, 2019

Overall, the book has some weak places (e.g. There are a lot of repetitions and sometimes annoying tone of an author that is 100% sure her method is great) but gives an interesting perspective on different motivation types and how to switch your priorities or find them. With the right distance, you......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on October 28, 2020

Motivation is a critical subject for leaders. I know this because every leader I talk to wants to better understand how to motivate their teams. If I could point you to a short book that would give you real research and real-life examples of how to do that, would you be interested? If you are, read......more