Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee,

and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst,

and Cape Cod.

Thank you. We're going to be talking today about motivation.

And motivation comes from a Latin word that means to move.

So what moves us? Why are we moved? Educators want to figure out how to motivate children,

bosses want to figure out how to motivate employees. We may find that we're lacking motivation where we wish we had it, and we may be motivated to do things that we somehow wish we didn't want to do.

So what is motivation? Where does it come from? And most of all, how can we understand that from a Jungian frame?

What I discovered from our good friends, Miriaman Webster, is they define motivation as an act or process of giving someone a reason to do something.

And I thought that was a really interesting sort of cognitively oriented definition that made me smile because all I could think

about was how often reason fails completely and utterly of, you know, here's why you should

really pick up your room. Here's why you should try to pass algebra.

And as a one time long ago special ed teacher with adolescents, I've well experienced the

failures of reason, which is very different from consequences.

Yeah.

So what often could work is if you don't pass English and sit down together with me

to see where the sticking points are, you're going to wind up in summer school,

which is eight weeks from eight in the

morning until one in the afternoon. Now, that's not reason. That's just hard, awful collision with

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