Motives That Guide Our Search For Self-Knowledge
People have goals that lead them to seek, notice, and interpret information about themselves. These goals begin the quest for self-knowledge. There are three primary motives that lead us in the search for self-knowledge:
- Self-Enhancement
- Accuracy
- Consistency
Read more about this topic: Self-knowledge (psychology)
Famous quotes containing the words motives, guide and/or search:
“Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”
—J.M. (James Matthew)
“With my desire to write he seemed in full sympathy, and in urging our early marriage he argued that my first necessity was leisure in which to develop and to master my craft. It appeared to me that with such a man as teacher and guide I could not fail, and it was in a queer mixture of young love and vaulting ambition that I became a wife.”
—Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)