Develop The Mental Skills of Peak Performance
Welcome to the archive. Here you'll find articles on the psychology of Motivation. These articles are written by me, Larry G. Maguire. I'm a psychologist and lecturer in organisational psychology and the content here is developed from established theory and learnings from decades of research.
Transactional Leadership is outcome-based. It is concerned with the end product rather than the process, and as such, it tends to find itself at odds with the outcome when it doesn't fit the …
[Read more...] about Transactional Leadership: Why Brutes Become Bosses
Self-determination is an important concept when considering the human motivation to work and perform. Self-determination theory (SDT) explains human motivation, and according to Edward Deci, it is …
[Read more...] about EP008 Self Determination Theory: How Motivation Really Works
What is play and why is it so important to well-being? What are the properties of play and how can we bring these aspects into our lives more? In today's article, I'm taking a look at these questions …
[Read more...] about Dr Stuart Brown on The 7 Properties of Play
I was about 13 years old, I think, on the junior team training after school. We were playing a short game into the goals at the railway side of the field and I was in corner-forward. The ball came to …
We seem to have it all. Modern conveniences abound, and technology is ubiquitous with life. Over the past 150 years, humans have advanced to where we‘re on the brink of widespread automation of …
[Read more...] about How To Find Happiness Through Daily Work
In today's article, we'll examine the human struggle to find out who we are. In a world that demands us to fit in, to join the machine of society, it is perhaps the greatest of human achievements to …
In today's article, I'm taking a close look at Abraham H. Maslow's concept of Peak Experience. It is similar in many ways to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's contemporary concept of Flow and perhaps laid the …
[Read more...] about Peak Experience: Maslow’s 16 Aspects of Superior Performance
