How to create desire?

Question

Many who philosophize focus on how to motivate the self or others to action. I take the opposite approach that motivation is a process that occurs by creating desire.

How do you create desire for yourself or desire for someone else?

Answer 1

desires are naturally inside us.
you dont' have to create them.
need for survival, etc.
maslow's heirarchy.

Answer 2

you do not create desires.
Desire or will is within the human being.
You may just find ways to awake or estimulate those desires either by words or actions.
Seduction (not necessarily romatic seduction) is a good way to wake up the other person's desire. A good salesman is an example of this. He will use whatever talking techniques he needs to convince you this is the right thing for you to buy and make you want to buy it, regardless u need it or not.
Actions is the second desire waker. Sometimes by giving the example we motivate others to do something, or viceversa, by seeing somebody doing something we motivate ourselves to do something.

in the case of your question, I understand you are meaning that motivation occurs after desire?. I dont agree. I think that desire occurs/awakes after motivation.
For me it works pretty much like the action - reaction theory.

Answer 3

It's sort of the old story of the carrot and the stick, huh? I create desire for either myself or others by dangling the "carrot" in front of the person in question... I tell myself or another how much can be gained by going ahead and doing a thing.

For example quitting smoking... for sometime I fooled myself that I was "cutting back slowly," which wasn't working since I still coughed ferociously. One day I simply decided that in order to avoid the current discrimination against smokers, and perhaps to one day cure the cough, I would just stop all at once. I did on my birthday and made it also be a birthday present to my twin, who had been asking me for years to stop.

The deep cough was gone the next day, never to return. Amazement and delight! I could stick around the front porch with the friends and not light up and annoy them... delight! It was simply a win-win situation.

For others I try to create the same kind of situation, where if they did a deed, it would be in a win-win surrounding... I point out the pros, they may try to come back with cons, but I just have more pros up my sleeve. The "carrot" method works for me.

Answer 4

Why do you desire for something? The reason for your desire are:
1. You think that something is good according to your subjective value
2. You feel supported in following your desire by others close to you or your superior

The main point is no. (1). Change your subjective value according to your desire requirements.

Answer 5

I focus not on desire but on need which is guaranteed by my creator. It has been provided and I simply need to be aware of all that I need. Desires cause me much distraction, why should I create more of them?

Answer 6

I don't. Desires come in to being all on their own. Then it's just a matter of sorting and prioritixing them and deciding which ones make the most sense to try and fulfill.

Doug

Answer 7

Charlene P is EVIL, but honest. Showing them that they need you is the difficult part. Leaving instills a sense of mystery, or just hard to get. Nobody desires anyone who's easy.

Answer 8

good question. i have to disagree with the first poster. i think desire is created. when you see something you want, you stop at nothing to get it, am I wrong? you mull over it, plot against it, it's always on your mind. i think people make themselves like something or someone, whether it's good for you or not. i cannot honestly think of a way to explain how you would create desire, i just know that we create it for ourselves.

Answer 9

If you look at a woman walk by...you will surely look at your favourite part first....either face, body etc.....that "favourite" is consider the cause of desire......
if you take action wanted to get near her...your desire begin....
this is just a example!!! hope it helps to solve your question!!

Answer 10

1)Using one of the five senses.

2) by sending her a huge bouquet of flowers