This post is more of a question than an essay. What is the difference between motivation and manipulation: When does a motivating action cross the line and become a manipulating action? What is the salient characteristic of manipulation that motivation lacks (or vice verse)? Or, as I started suspecting, is the difference purely in the eye of the beholder (the one being motivated or manipulated)?
I know: We could all look up the dictionary definition for clues, but that's cheating. With your current knowledge and experience, what would you say?
I would say it's the intention behind it! For emample, if the intention is to get another to do something and getting them to think it's their own idea, then I would call that manipulation but it also means that the act carried out is the effect created by another not by the person doing the action. Though to the person doing the action it is a self determined act. Of course I am referrng to people not such things as the manipulation of clay or other physical things.
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result of an idea and comes before the action or the result of being inspired but again it would seem that an idea or concept is the source.
This probably goes along with intention but I would say the difference is who benefits. With motivation, the people being motivated benefit more. With manipulation implies that you are the one to benefit. I did read a book this week that points out that manipulation is not necessarily a bad thing though. Just because you are the one to benefit more doesn't mean that the other person is harmed.
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