Archive for the 'Motivation Theory' Category

The Rocky Fallacy

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last year, I went to see Rocky Balboa in the theaters. I’ve always loved Rocky movies, especially the first one, and I thought it was a great ending to the franchise. But as I sat there [...]

Vision vs. Discipline, or Why I Don’t Do New Year’s Resolutions

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I’ll do part 2 of the stereotyping post on Monday. I felt like tackling something else today instead because it was a timelier issue, and by next week the topic will be a little stale.
This blog is fairly new, but I had another blog before so I know a lot of the cliches [...]

Why We Have More Opportunity Than Our Parents Yet Are Less Happy

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From talking to a lot of my friends who are in their 20s and 30s, I’ve seen a common thread in all of us. The need to accumulate experiences and things. The need to travel to as many places as possible. [...]

Why You Can’t Trust People To Say What They Really Want

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I meet a lot of guys who complain about women claiming to like “nice guys” but actually preferring jerks. It’s a reassuring fiction that shields their egos, but it’s really not that simple. First off, these “nice guys” are rarely actually nice guys. After all, the only people they seem to be consistently [...]

The Mystery/Mastery Love Paradox

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I want to talk about a theory I’ve been working over in my head. I call it the Mystery/Mastery Love Paradox. (I’m generally not good at giving short, catchy names to things, so if you can come up with a pithier name for it, please let me know). It basically states that when [...]