Sleep

After going through the material provided in this unit on motivation, I am surprised to find that there is little to no information on the need to sleep.

As defined in Reeve 2009, a need is any condition within the person that is essential for life, growth and well-being. p.77.

The idea behind physiological needs such as thirst, hunger and sex, is that the body is motivated by the mind to achieve a level of satisfaction before damage can occur due to a lack of resources. So that said, surely sleep would be considered a physiological need?

Thankfully, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs does list sleep as a physiological need. As it is fairly obvious that this is needed in order to function in everyday life.

But how does sleep influence our motivation? As a physiological need does it eventually take priority over other needs or forms of motivation? and can we function or be motivated even when we feel fatigue? How does this affect our performance on tasks?

Hopefully with some research I will be able to answer some of these questions for my textbook chapter, as I have decided to tackle motivation and fatigue for my topic.

Week 1 - The Ascent.

To whom it concerns,

Today I will be writing my first blog, of perceivably many, as I journey into the realms of Motivation and Emotion. This unit, although irrelevant to those not studying it, with any hope will offer an exciting look for me (at the very least) into the essence of mankind and why we do what we do.

Although initially I have been skeptical about blogging and it's overall benefits to mankind, I realise this can be a useful medium for collecting my thoughts, and possibly even be a useful medium for feedback.

So that all said and done, I offer people to skim over my blog entries and give feed back or suggestions on how they can improve.

Until next time,

-Ian