People often compare themselves to others and question their own drive, yet what looks like motivation may not mean what it seems. The difference can impact performance.

Tali Sharot is the director of the affective brain lab and an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London. She studies how motivation and emotion govern our everyday ...

How do we motivate those under our care to do what’s in their best interest? This is a question many of us—who are supervisors, parents, teachers, coaches, or other kinds of care providers— regularly ...

Motivating and developing others is a misunderstood practice. Surveys in the past 20 years conclude that for professionals and managers, money is not the motivator we think it is. Of course, that ...

Many of us spend an inordinate amount of time waiting to get motivated, but experts inform us that motivation doesn't work that way. Someone told me recently, “If you’re like me, you’re watching the ...