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Kennon Sheldon || How to Be an Optimal Human

The Psychology Podcast

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I Love It. Could You Send Me That Paper?

The relative autonomy spectrum has to do with the why of behavior no matter what it is. The finding is that whatever you're doing can be located somewhere on a continuum between one extreme and another. Self-esteem motivation, which we talked about earlier, just barely falls on the autonomous side. It's actually not a bad form of motivation, despite what Jenny Crocker would say.

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