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Motivational Intelligence

The ability to motivate ourselves and others.

The brain functions and processes that build, direct, sustain, or alternatively suppress or eliminate our motivation towards anything from highly specific goals to general intentions, desires, and needs. This capability works to move us to the action that will best serve our lives, but is imperfect at best. It involves 1) perceiving the motivational forces and factors towards multiple behavioral possibilities, 2) using and building our understanding of our motivations, 3) intervening and optimizing our motivations and 4) managing them over time and across the many needs and aspirations in our lives.

In motivating others, we utilize a similar set of abilities - perceive the nature of others motivation, understand it, and influence it.

This helps us to pursue what is meaningful, rewarding and motivating to us in our lives and helps us to motivate ourselves in ways that promote our wellbeing. It would include the ability to use our will-power, cultivate our intrinsic interest, develop our visions and valuations of success, and cultivate and utilize our self confidence in our ability to take action and succeed.

Definition by the CO-Intelligence Institute: MOTIVATIONAL INTELLIGENCE is the ability to know and to work with what moves you; to sense, think and initiate in terms of needs, wants, will, courage, responsibility and action -- one's own and others. (This can include that aspect of mood intelligence that can marshal emotions in the service of a goal.)