At what age did each of the following motivate you the most?

Question

1. Hunger
2. Jealousy
3. Pride
4. Hatred
5. Love
6. Comfort (Freedom of pain)
7. ______________

(example: When I was born hunger was my prime motivator. At age 6 I started feeling that my worth was based on how fast I could run compared with my peers: Ergo Jealousy motivated me to "be better than them". At age 12 I learned that we could all be proud of whatever we accomplished - Ergo Pride was my main motivator to study hard and exercise hard. - well I am sure you get my drift.)

At what age did each of the above become your "prime" motivator?

This may not be worded well. So help me out, okay?

Dear "deth" - Thanks for making my question more clear.

Dear "snark" - same comment as to "darth" -- thanks

Answer 1

1. the sensation of hunger is innate (ever since day one)
2. i really never have had an issue with jealousy (i am jealous of really intelligent people) age 28, it began to hit me
3. pride motivates me to become a better person. i take pride in almost everything i do. age 5
4. hatred usually surfaces around the holiday season and funerals when i have to see the grandmother that told me i should have been aborted. age 14
5. love. age 27, when my daughter was born
6. is such an alien concept, i cannot begin to fathom what that is like.
7. friendship- surround yourself with good friends and you can have that for the rest of your life.

Answer 2

This is a pretty cool question.

1. Hunger - if you mean literal hunger, I'd say when I was born.

2. Jealousy - I'd say around age 5, when I met other kids my age at school and finally saw more about the world outside my own family.

3. Pride - probably around age 10 or 11, when I started to care about how I looked and my clothes and things like that.

4. Hatred - I can't say I've ever truly felt this.

5. Love - I would say that within the last 5 years this has become my prime motivator. So, age 20.

6. Comfort - I would say around age 3 or 4, as soon as I started to consciously recognize that my parents were a source of comfort, usually for some reason like a scraped knee, or not getting my way

Answer 3

Hunger: Birth
Jealousy: I was just under three, and my mother brought my younger sister home. I did not have a name for my emotion then.
Pride: Preschool age, when everyone would talk about my big green eyes, and rarely mentioned my sisters beautiful brown eyes. [you are calling that jealousy, but I believe I was prideful.] My grandmother always gave me little tasks and made sure that she told me how much harder I worked than the other grandkids. I would have moved a mountain for that woman.
Hatred: I had no awareness of hatred until I was in my teens. Before, I realize I had some pent up rage, but I did not express it outwardly. I began to act out as a teen.
Love: I don't ever remember not feeling loved. I was the firstborn, and I had a paternal grandmother who always favored me. I had my first crush in grade school, and by thirteen, I thought I was in love for life. The birth of my oldest child taught me what real love was.
Comfort: From my earliest memory, I was aware of the least discomfort, and would go to great extremes to avoid any semblance of the dreaded loss of my creature comforts, unless I was physically competing.
Security: I remember my younger sister and brother going to sleep in the car, and as the oldest, there would be an effort to rouse me so that I could walk, while they were carried into the house. I just faked being asleep, and my father would carry me in. I realize now that I felt secure in my daddy's strong arms and did not want to lose that feeling. I also know now he had to know I was faking.

Answer 4

I'll go with somethin' like that...
0-10 Hunger
10-13 Jealousy
13-17 Pride
17-21 Comfortably Numb
21-23 Hate
23-26 Love(Met awesome gf)
26-27 Hate(gf left)
27- Comfort or Love again perhaps? This is where I'm at so far.

Answer 5

I would say that my prime motivator has always been comfort... physical and emotional, and as a secondary motivator to that, love has been a main focus. I was very concerned as a child with people being "happy with me".

Hunger of course when I was an infant, but I can't remember that.

Jealousy when I was an adolescent, pride as a young adult (19 to 25).

Hatred only periodically when very very angry... hatred has never been a constant presence for me. I've always seen hatred as being a sign of weakness.

Answer 6

1) I've never been truly hungry. I see people who are hungry and I haven't been in that situation... where it is my primary motivator. I eat well and I eat often.

2) The emotion jealousy requires a sense of ownership whereas I encourage people to share and you don't really love someone unless you are prepared to sacrifice your happiness for theirs. On my friends 5th birthday I gave him a batman car... that made me jeolous because I no longer had one to play with. It motivated me to share.

3) Pride - I deal with this issue every day. It is necessary to perform well. It doesn't help being so self critical.

4) Hatred - I learnt fear at age 4.... which has developed to a numb mindstate of indifference to many emotions.

5) Love - motivates me daily. I live just to look after my family best I can.

6) Comfort. When I die.

Answer 7

Hunger, I'm sure I felt it as a infant but I don't remember.

Jealousy, I don't think I've ever felt jealous

Pride, I've felt this as long as I can remember. I was raised by a Marine corp drill sergeant, pride is a constant.

Hatred, probably be age 6-7

Love, same time I learned hatred. I feel love causes hate, no love no hate.

Comfort, I've never felt this either, this comes at death

Answer 8

Hunger: has yet to motivate me very much; even when an infant, I had to be force fed.

Jealousy: I was born jealous; still a major motivator.

Pride: same as for jealousy.

Hatred: never a major factor for me.

Love: still working on this one.

Comfort: same as jealousy and pride.

I can't really say what motivates most of all, out of these choices or otherwise.

Answer 9

Sorry my motivator as you would say was fear of getting my back side kicked, growing up there was a lot of that going around. learn to kick back harder, faster, with more force got to be meaner than those around you & look out for #1 " ME " at @ 22 years of age discovered Jesus Christ and have been learning to help others, which is not easy a lot of the time.

Answer 10

hunger - 2 years old
Jealousy - 10 - 11 years old
Pride - All the time
Hatred - never
Love - Different kind at different times
comfort - the years before beginning school