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  %PERSONAL OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVE 890603

     Human motivations and achievement have both objective
and  subjective  aspects which are intimately  related  to
each   other  in  ways  which  make  the  natures  of  the
motivations and achievement hard to distinguish.

     The  carpenter  who  builds houses is  proud  of  the
quality houses he builds and is respected for the  quality
of houses he builds.   His achievement in part lies in the
objective character of the houses he builds.   Much of the
focus of his attention is upon achieving certain objective
goals  having to do with the quality of the houses  built.
The carpenter's motivation would appear to be focused upon
objective achievements.

     The  carpenter's motivations are focused as they  are
in  large part because the building of high quality houses
leads to the enjoyment of respect and affective support on
the  part  of  other  people  who  are  important  to  the
carpenter's  sense  of self worth.   To the carpenter  the
building of high quality houses is a step in achieving and
maintaining  a stable sense of self respect,  worth,   and
esteem.

     The  quality  of  the  houses  built  is   intimately
connected  to  the  quality of the  carpenter's  reflexive
considerations  and  how comfortable the  carpenter  feels
with him/herself.

     How comfortable the carpenter feels with  her/himself
depends  upon the quality of the houses built and upon how
others reflect upon the quality of the houses built.  That
upon  which reflexive considerations depends includes both
the  objective  quality of the houses built and  the  non-
objective  quality  of  the  inter-personal  relationships
within the community as they pertain to the carpenter.

     Thus  the  reflexive  satisfaction of  the  carpenter
depends not only upon the objective quality of the  houses
built,   but also upon the manner in which that  objective
quality   of   housing   was  achieved  as   regards   the
interpersonal  relations which pertain to the  process  of
building.    It is not only the objective quality  of  the
housing that makes a difference.   The subjective  quality
of   interpersonal  relationships  which  pertain  to  the
objective quality of the housing also make a difference.

     Personal   achievements  and  their  associated  self
respect,  worth and esteem exist in both the objective and
subjective  realms of human realities;  in ways which  can
not  be  completely separated from each other,  but  which
have somewhat separate aspects which need to be recognized
as such.

     It  is  not good to confuse the objective quality  of
housing  built with the quality of the reputation  of  the
carpenter who built the housing.   The housing a carpenter
builds may be of a quality which is not closely related to
the  quality  of  the subjective relationships  which  the
carpenter enjoys in the community.  The carpenter may work
more on developing the quality of his reputation than upon
the  quality  of his/her housing;  or  vice  versa.    Any
disparity between the two qualities can last only so long,
but  the disparity can last long enough to make  a  tragic
difference   to  many  people  if  the  disparity  is  not
recognized before it makes such a tragic difference.

     The differences between the objective and  subjective
aspects of human motivation and achievement are recognized
reasonably  easily  in the case of  carpenters  who  build
obviously objective houses.  The corresponding differences
are  not so easily recognized in the lives of workers  who
focus upon manufacturing, distribution, trade, litigation,
adjudication,   personal  health,   education,   research,
reporting,    writing,   criticism,   artistic  creations,
entertainment, political leadership, religious leadership,
etc.    In  each instance,  however,  the focus  of  human
endeavor  has  some distinctively different aspects:   the
subject  matter of the overt attention and  the  reflexive
aspects of the community in considerations of the person's
performance  with regard to the overt subject matter.   In
each  instance  there  are differences  which  it  may  be
important to recognize.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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