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Nic Voge - What self worth theory says about your motivation

Smart People Podcast

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I Want to Achieve, I Don't Want to Fail, ["So I Want to Achiev, So I Want Not to Fail."

Many people, myself included, ["are high in the desire to achieve]," he says. "But boy, I'm powerfully motivated not to look stupid," Perma adds. Failure doesn't mean an objective measure of 45 on a test; it means not meeting an expectation or that of someone else and fall short of that." He explains how this can lead to procrastination.

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