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Our third brain structure is the new limbic brain.

I'm a huge fan of the new limbic brain.

It's a fascinating place home to our deepest motivations and raw emotions.

This is where our memory resides.

Everything we experience in our lives will be recorded here.

The Good The Bad and Ugly that's here where we are most of the time.

I mean this is a part of the brain that is usually running the show.

It runs like an autopilot.

It recognizes situations where we've already been through and immediately comes up with a set of standard

operational procedures to deal with the situation at hand.

He likes everything we've ever learned.

It deals with everything from walking and talking over driving and using a computer to how to behave

in public and all kinds of social codes you can imagine it's highly efficient as it will use the minimum

necessary attention span to carry out tasks which frees up attention to do other things at the same

time.

For example let's say driving and having a conversation with the person next to you actually any routine

occupation that lets you wander off with your might here you will find all the contradictions and paradoxes

of our complex personalities.

We are all wonderful beings capable of so much yet limiting ourselves all the time.

Basically we can distinguish three layers of motivation.

The first layer is fixed partly formed through our genes and partly from our environment.

Once we're only three months old it will remain the same for the rest of our lives.

These motivations give us energy and joy.

There are also called intrinsic motivations with the NBA.

We have identified different types of motivation which lead to eight different personality types.

Now every one of us has between two and four of these personalities sometimes they are very strong in

presence.

Sometimes however they get covered up and almost disappear underneath the other layers.

The second layer isn't fixed.

It will continually evolve and has no age limit to do so.

Here we will find our likes and dislikes.

They are also called extrinsic motivations extrinsic motivations aren't stable nor sustainable.

They cost us energy and will fade if they don't meet success.

Here we will find everything that our environment has given us from our parents brothers and sisters

over our teachers and friends to movies music video games basically the second layer is like a blueprint

of the cultural influences we've been subject to.

They push us to do what others expect from us.

What is socially acceptable here lie also all our irritations intolerance and prejudices.

The difference between the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations is basically the one with that little

kid who has to clean his room in the first scenario.

He'll do that and will actually enjoy the cleaning itself.

Yes those kids do exist.

And the second scenario he will be cleaning because Mommy told him to or because daddy promised something

sweet Will that same kid do his homework because he likes it or because otherwise he might get punished.

And years later will he go to law school because his dad is a lawyer.

Or will he pursue his dream of working with let's say animals and when the time comes to find a job

will he choose the one with a fat paycheck or the one where he lost the contents.

An important thing to know is that a first layer will motivate you regardless if you're great at doing

what you do.

Extrinsic motivations on the contrary don't last.

The motivation from a race if it's substantial enough will last three to six months maximum.

As a business owner if you have to give your people a race every six months you'll be out of business

in no time.

The choice between a fat paycheck and a career you love is a no brainer.

From a motivational point of view still a lot of people who would go for a fat paycheck.

This society will live in pushes us to compete and win all the time.

We are private.

We're biased.

We're programmed to live a life that is intended for us.

The real question though is underneath all that what do you want.

You the real you.

Three months old you before everything else started to find a way into your limbic system.

Why we should get happiness fulfillment joy that's why.

Otherwise we all just end up angry frustrated and bitter.

Faking to have a perfect life and being miserable inside's ok so much for intrinsic and extra basic

motivations there is a third layer.

Fascinating what I'm talking about obsessions.

I can hear you think oh obsessions Oh I don't have those.

That's nothing like me.

Well newsflash I'm sorry to tell you we all have them.

Not one but actually many don't believe me.

Fine be that way.

Remember the first time you fell in love remember the feeling I remember how you just couldn't get enough

of the other person you want to be together all the time calling and texting each other all the time

seeing the other person's face every where.

Well that my friend is what we call an obsession and the fact that you think it doesn't apply to you

is because you're not aware of them.

An obsession is a passion that has gone over its tipping point behind it lies a compensation mechanism

for a void in our life when displaying obsessive behavior with thinking all the time about something

or someone.

Everything we do related to our obsession is just too much.

We can't get enough of it and we'll never be satisfied.

Is the root of addictions.

It's more than the usual suspects of drugs and alcohol.

Think about workaholism shopaholic sex addiction bedding stalking planetis and extremism of all kinds

when they're not managed.

Obsessions can potentially ruin our lives and that of others but most of all even when there are mild

due to their compulsive nature they just change us into a life of servitude ever chasing that one thing

that we can't get enough of when obsessed with just not free so is summarized in the Olympic Rain.

This is our standby mode in which we operate most of the time.

It is also the home of our memories.

Everything we've been through remains here and most of all the neo limbic brain is the heart of our

motivations of which we distinguish three layers our intrinsic motivations are extrinsic motivations

and our obsessions.